Karla Montenegro Gonzalez: Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. This is the last event that Moorpark College will be hosting for today, Monday, but the following event will be hosted by Oxnard so make sure you join us.
The event that we're going to go ahead and start right now is Getting Involved. Before I start with the presentation,
and introduce you to your student leaders. I just want to make note of this important Zoom disclosure. So this Zoom webinar has been configured to have the highest security for your protection. You have the option to ask questions and participate with your identity or anonymously.
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Once again, welcome to How To Get Involved to On and Off Campus, I would like to introduce you both Phoebe Ruiz- Juarez and Gerald Richardson the third, who are student leaders here at Moorpark College and they want to talk to you about getting involved.
Gerald Richardson: Hey everyone, welcome to Undocumented Student Action Week. I'm so excited to talk to you all about how to get involved on
campus. I am Gerald Richardson the third and I am joined with Phoebe.
Phoebe Ruiz-Juarez: Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for coming.
I'm excited to present this all to you guys and just want to let you know that, yeah, don't be afraid to ask any questions that you may have.
You know, there's nothing really that I, that's like, that that we wouldn't be able to understand from your point of view as a student.
Next slide please?
Gerald: Yes, this is me. Just to give you a little context and background about myself.
I am the Legislative Affairs Director for Region Six. So that's with the SS triple C. So we'll talk a little bit about what that is later. I am also a senate chair for Associated Students with
Oxnard College. So that's basically student government, we'll get into that as well. I am the founder and president of Youthfully Evolved Society. It is a student organization on campus
dedicated to volunteerism, civic engagement, and advocacy. We do a lot of legislative visits, food drives, a whole lot of stuff to get involved. Currently we're working on raising student engagement
for voting, right now and educating student voters on their options, whether it's propositions or candidates,
everything down ballot, even to local measures. I'm also the Vice President of the Black Student Union on campus at Moorpark College so check that out as well, and
I am the Public Relations Officer for the Honors Club on campus. My email is right there if you have any direct questions or you want to get involved or
if there's anything else you want to know about me, I am also a Political Science and Sociology double major with a pre-law track and I hope to transfer out of here
within a year. So there's a lot you can accomplish in this time, you could take on as much as you want, or as little as you want but I encourage you all to get involved. We can go to the next slide.
Phoebe: Thank you Gerald for your introduction.
My name is Phoebe Ruiz- Juarez I have a second in your Film major here at Moorpark College. My plan is to get out next year and I transfer to CSUN or USC
because I'm studying to become a screenwriter, and I'm the vice president of Film Club, which is a club in which we, you know, discuss films, it's every aspect of film and
I think discussion is, you know, my favorite part of being a Film major. I'm also the vice president of the Latinx Club, you don't have to be Latino or speak Spanish to join.
You can be, you know, from wherever we accept all Moorpark College students, and I'm student ally for the Moorpark DREAMers Workgroup as well as being DACA student myself,
and I'm the student assistant to Kristen Robinson in the Student Activities Office, which is the office in which the ASMC which is the student government at Moorpark College,
you know, resides in and my contact information is down there below if you have any questions that you necessarily don't want to ask to the presentation you're more than welcome to reach out to me that way. Next slide, please?
Okay so student organizations is one of the easiest and
I guess most fun way to get involved on campus, because just being a part of student organizations doesn't mean that you have to be a board member for it,
you can just join and get to know, different people, and there's, you know, if you're wondering what the first step is, I guess just
really understanding what different parts of your identity do you want to advance in. Do you want to advance in your major? Do you want to advance in finding people of your culture ethnic group?
That you want to, you know, have more peers and connections to. So, this, you know, what I created right here. It's kind of just an example of, okay, if you're a business major than maybe the Business Student Association,
is a good, you know, club for you to join as well as Engineering, we have an amazing engineering club,
or Communications and then for cultural, ethnic group, you know, if you're Muslim, you know, you might be interested in joining the Muslim Student Association group or Latinx club or, you know, Black Student Union, or Armenian Student Association.
You know, you don't have to be Muslim, Latino, Black, or Armenian to join those clubs. So you could join, even if you're not, if you still want to make connections.
But there's also other clubs that you can join that you don't really necessarily have to know a lot about, you know, Nature's Finest they do gardening.
History and War Games club, it's just games about history and war, you don't have to know anything about that join.
Film Club that's the club that I'm in, you don't have to know anything about film clubs and then just liking to watch movies,
or even dance club, you know, they have the auditions and you can join through there.
There's the entire list of all the student organizations on campus at Moorpark College.edu/clubs and there they have the contact information to the club representatives,
in which you can ask them more about, more information about the clubs and how they can, how you can join. Next slide please?
So the DREAMers Workgroup and Allies is a great way for to get involved on campus, especially if you want to advocate for the DREAMer students here on campus.
My first year, that's how I got involved. One of the girls, there used to be a DACA Club here on campus. There wasn't enough people for it to remain an active club and that's kind of where the idea of Latinx
Club, you know, emerged from but one of the girls Arisay Diaz, she was so kind and when I was coming out of high school, I really wanted to make sure that
I was prepared for Moorpark College, so I went an Instagram and I followed all of the Moorpark Instagram pages so that I knew, like what was going on and
like the the DACA or the DREAMers Club, followed me back and she would reach out to me and we kind of both talked to each other, and she let me know, like, "Yeah, this isn't the club that's, you know, active anymore, but if you have interest in it, we know we can make that happen."
It's still not an active club, right now, we have Latinx club, but, if any, you know, anybody that's watching
wants to create a club and knows a couple people who would be willing to take the time and effort to do that then,
you know, you can contact Karla Montenegro, I have her contact information down below, and she's here at the meeting,
and we can get started on that process, but the DREAMers Workgroup is basically it's, you know, allies from faculty, to staff, to
students, and the people that are just there to support DREAMers and,
you know, there's so many opportunities that they give for us, that they collect, that they really take time and effort out of their days to just show that support,
you know, it's why Karla is doing the whole week of Undocumented Student Action Week because they really do want to support us and they don't just have things for us, they have things for our families, for our communities,
you know, through them you find out resources that are not just for DACA students, but they're for, you know, fully undocumented students, and
it's really inclusive. So if you have any questions about that you're more than welcome to contact me, from my contact information from the slide previous, to the, I'll share at the end of the meeting as well as Karla Montenegro Gonzalez. So, next slide please?
Gerald: So the Associated Students at Moorpark College, also known as ASMC,
they are Moorpark College's official elected student government. So every spring we have an election for student government and
there's a lot of candidates who run. It's really fun. We put up the flyers. We make campaigns on Instagram, we follow people, and then we just post and try to campaign to get people to
vote for us. And there are 11 positions in elections are held every spring. It's super great to get involved with that, you are able to advocate for students, foster campus life, fund student clubs and so so so much more.
So, one of the things that I like about ASMC is that when there's a meeting, when there's committee meetings on campus, you see ASMC represented. The administration, the faculty members, everyone goes to ASMC to get the students' perspective.
So you can get involved now, you don't have to wait until the spring. You could become an ASMC delegate
So basically, that's when they are able to delegate you some roles and tasks, so if there's a campus wide committee,
that you need to sit on, you could sit on that. If there's an internal committee with ASMC, such as the Sustainability Committee, which is in charge of our
sustainability and environmental efforts, you could get involved with that. There's a Multicultural Day Committee, which is amazing, headed by Professor Tamarra Coleman.
You can get involved with that, if you want to. Whatever you want to get involved with ASMC is definitely a point of contact, because
you can even help from your own committee, you could propose an event, you could join their meetings, you could give a new perspective even though you're not necessarily an elected official for ASMC.
So yeah, I would really urge everyone to get involved and join...
next slide please. [Phoebe]: I just, oh sorry, actually, before you switch the slide out, I wanted to add on to this, ASMC is such a great way to get involved and really it I love
it because you can get involved as little or as much as you'd like, as much as what fits into your schedule, you know, with the delegate you have less, I guess,
responsibilities as an actual board member, but you can still get, you know, out as much as you want, you meet amazing people, you, meet, you have, you know, connections to a lot of students, staff this way because what Gerald said,
you know, when the school wants student feedback they go to a ASMC first, and that's a great way to have your voices heard, and even if you just have a friend in ASMC
they'll allow you to hear your opinions on the school, and if there's something that you think is a problem, and there's something that you want to see a change in,
why not be that change yourself, why not go and find a way to to do that for yourself and for your community.
And with the elections, I know a lot of things people a lot of reasons why people are turned away from that is, because they don't like competition, they don't like to lose, they don't like to, you know, get in
I guess, get in a sense, where they're going to be in a difficult situation, but there's been times where people will run completely unopposed,
and even if you run opposed, if you think that you're the best candidate, that will show through,
and people will see that. People will just see that you're not trying to get elected for the title, but that you're trying to get elected because you truly care.
So don't be worried about that, and again, if you have any questions about elections or a some. See, you can contact us, or the ASMC board and ASMC board@vcccd.edu,
and, you know, they're more than happy to answer any of your questions. So, next slide please?
Gerald: And one of the things that I will just add about ASMC in regards to the students in it for California Community Colleges, is that they're both student body government, so they're
positions to represent the student body. There is also another position at the district level,
we're in the Ventura County Community College District, and there is a board of trustees that kind of governance over our community college district
there is a student trustee position that's actually stipend, so,
just like all the aforementioned ways to get involved, these are really great resume enhancers, really great college application enhancers, and
just invaluable leadership opportunities where you could truly learn how to get involved, learn how to advocate for students, learn how to effectively communicate with peers,
and it's, it's just, I've learned so much about conflict resolution, about disagreeing with
some of my colleagues, but still being able to maintain that friendship and that open line of communication. It's really great. It's really great way to get involved, and it's similar to
so also, what I will add about that as well. We are, since we're in a community college district, we, all the resources, you're able to
access all of the resources within Ventura College, Oxnard College, and Moorpark College. So just because we're Moorpark student does not mean you're limited to ASMC.
If you take some units at Oxnard College, you could join Oxnard ASG as well. If you take some at Ventura, you could join Ventura's ASVC. So there's a lot of
positions, there are a lot of opportunities. So if you don't win an election at Moorpark, don't be discouraged. There's a whole community college district at your hands.
So kind of expanding on that, the Student Senate California Community Colleges is the statewide. So we are in a
California Community Colleges system which is comprised of 116 colleges. That's under the State Chancellor's Office, Eloy Oakley and the Board of Governors appointed by Gavin Newsom. So,
the SS triple C is divided into 10 regions, we are in Region Six. Region Six is of nine colleges and the SS triple C is the official voice for those 2.1 million students in California Community Colleges system, so
there are a lot of positions. They are five executive board positions and Region Six, there is the Regional Affairs
Director, which is basically the acting president. There's the Legislative Affairs Director,
which is what I am simply the vice president, if I would put it simply, there's the Vice Chair, which helps with the meeting, kind of like a secretary. There's the Communications Officer, which they are in charge of getting the word out throughout the region and there is also a
and there's also a treasurer, so they are in charge of all finances that we have running back and forth through the region. Something unique about the SS triple C is that
dissimilar to normal community colleges' student body associations, we are able to lobby and we're able to do legislative visits and endorse propositions,
really get hands on in the mud with policy and legislative advocacy. So here's the caveat, the regional affairs director and the legislative affairs director are sent to the Board of Directors so,
they're no longer advocating just for their region, they're advocating for the entire state, the entire 2.1 million students,
so they're not looking out for the interests of just their region, they have to think, "Okay, what about the students in San Francisco, or Berkeley, or San Diego, Riverside, how will this impact them?" it's research driven, it's data driven, and
it gets a little contentious because you have so many areas represented, but it's just an amazing opportunity. So joining the SS triple C we have monthly board of director meetings in Sacramento, California.
The flights are paid for, the hotels are paid for, it's a little tricky with COVID right now, but I think we are working with the Chancellor's Office to
resume our physical meetings in November, so it's really great to get involved. We actually have a regional position open for Vice Chair. So I would really
urge you all to get involved. It's an election. It's really, really, really, it's, so, one of the great things about the elections is that
the elections, you find out, you run you find out the day of. So you just wear your nicest suit or your nicest dress and
you come and give a little spiel on why you think you deserve the position. You may be running against 2, 3, 4 or 5 people who are nominated in the region, but it's if you're the right person for it I'm sure you'll get it, and even if you don't get it, you were able to participate in statewide
committees. So similar to how we have a student equity and achievement committee on Moorpark's campus. There's a statewide committee for that as well. There's a statewide Guided Pathways Committee,
Advisory Committee that you can serve on without being in an official capacity with SS triple C, we could nominate you for those committees and you could give you a perspective, we have the Rising Scholars, so if you're formely the incarcerated and you're looking for a way to advocate for
students like you, that's a great way to get involved. We do trainings on how to effectively advocate. We have legislation, we have internal committees in the region like the Legislative Affairs Committee.
If you don't necessarily want a position with the roles and responsibilities, but you still want to learn how to advocate for legislation that impacts you, if you want to learn how to simplify the FAFSA process or
rectify,
reform the Dream Act or anything that you want to do, you could come to one of the committees and get involved. There's also statewide caucuses so
similar again to how on campus, we have clubs like the Black Student Union or the Spectrum Club or the Latinx Club,
they're statewide, so they're statewide caucuses, which represent all of those clubs interests,
but, except you're now, you're not just meeting with people at Moorpark College you're meeting with people in 116 different colleges and it's really, really cool to just see the diversity and see people like you, but different. So it's really, it's a really great way to get involved.
You can reach out to me if you want to get involved and we'll move on to the next slide.
So there are a lot of student
programs within our Ventura County Community College District.
These are the ways to get involved, for sure. Most notably, we have an honors program at Moorpark College.
Our honors program is in alliance with our UCLA TAP program. Something really, really cool about the UC tap, UCLA TAP program is that 92% of the students who graduate from this program are able to, are accepted and admitted into UCLA, which is, that's just astonishing to me.
So some of the requirements for that program are a 3.0 GPA with that least 19 transferable units.
If you don't necessarily have the GPA, but you still want to get involved, Professor Nathan Bowen, we'll include his contact information as well.
Join the reach out to him, join the Honors Club. It's a great way to just get your dip your feet and until you have that GPA, so join the Honors Program,
and you can still take honors classes, without being in the program. So to graduate from the Honors Program you need at least five honors courses.
You don't have to wait until you're accepted to take those honors courses. The honors courses or a little bit accelerated and you maybe have to write one or two more essays, read one extra book,
in addition to the normal curriculum, but they're super cool. All of the faculty for the honors classes or extremely, extremely nice, willing to work with you, excited to have you try to take on that extra rigor,
so I would definitely want to get, I would definitely urge everyone to get involved with that.
We also have F Y E and S Y E, that is the first year experience and the second year experience.
These are programs for first year and second year students to provide you with a lot of resources and support your need. You're
matched with a student success coach and I know that has helped me out tremendously.
Being able to go someone and say, "Hey, can you look over this essay or hey can you advise me
on what I should do about this particular situation?" just having someone to talk to, and having someone who cares, someone you could communicate with about
any troubles or woes you're having with classes, teachers, anything, it's really, really helped me out so
we'll include that information as well. There's also the PACE Program. The PACE Program is personally my favorite
because it is the program for accelerated college education. If you're looking to... if you're looking to accelerate your college education, it's the right program for you. It's amazing. There's also the President's Leadership Forum,
that's a formum that's really, really great. I'm a part of it this year, and I'm learning directly from President Sokenu, who is our college president.
It's really, really amazing. You learn leadership skills, you read books, you discuss with people who want to learn leadership as well. It's a dialogue. It's just a really welcoming group,
and I'm just learning so much from it and I'm really grateful for that, as well as the one on this campus, there's one at Oxnard's campus as well open to all students,
it's with President Sanchez, that one's also really great as well. So I would urge everyone to look into that. The EOPS Program, it's the Extended Opportunity Program and Services.
This one has been my saving grace for a college education. Honestly, it's for first generation, low income students, and I mean,
they just have an abundance of resources.
They have a book, kind of a book fee waiver, so they kind of take on a little bit of the cost of your books which is really great. You get prioritized registration. So the prioritized registration, if you been at Moorpark College, you know how fast the
classes fill up, they fill up so, so, so quickly. So this is definitely something that really helps with that. You get prioritized registration, so you get to register, kind of at the same time or before everybody else. So it's helped me get into all the classes I wanted to.
You also have a counselor. So normally, you would just have you would have to go to Moorpark Counseling, which is just as great but
the EOPS counselors provide a second look, a more in depth look, they take more time to really look at it and see, "Hey,
we know you have all of these other circumstances compounding on top of each other. Is this right class for you? It's a certain amount of units for you?
Are you okay?" and it just provides you with an extra resource. So that's really, really great. They also had a really cool food pantry
when on campus where you could just go anytime and you could drop in for snacks. So that's really, really great, and then the Pathway of Law Program.
That is a program at Ventura College open to all students within the district.
It is for all people who want to go into law school. So it's when I've definitely taken advantage of you as well get a counselor. She's amazing, her name's Miriam,
she's really really great, and you basically they set a pathway for you to take courses, they match you with a mentor who is when the law field and
it's just, it's really, really amazing. I can't over emphasize that.
There are so much more, so many more programs on campus particular to the different major you are, the different career interests that you have, the different circumstances that you've been in.
So there's the ACCESS Program, phenomenal. There's America's Teaching Zoo absolutely amazing, if you're interested in animals are being a veterinarian or biology.
Really great. There's tutoring, free tutoring. Take advantage of this. If you're struggling with your courses definitely get free tutoring, we have a math and writing center just amazing.
And we also have a Guardian Scholars Program,we also have on campus jobs and we'll get into a little of that on the next slide. Next slide please?
Okay internships. Moorpark College offers amazing internship advisement for students. We all offer honor opportunities, full time, part time, internships, volunteer opportunities so
I would really encourage everyone to get involved with this. I'll give a personal little anecdote. I worked for the Simi Valley Police Department and I am a super social justice oriented person I don't shy away from
conversations about police brutality or excessive force, but just being in that opportunity really exposed me to
just how wide the police department is how big a law enforcement agencies are and
I worked in policy and public relations in the policy and public relations bureau and I was actually working directly under the commander, which is basically the second highest rank in a police department,
and it was just such an amazing opportunity. I got to do things that interest me so I got to advocate for vulnerable populations. I sat on the city council's task force for homelessness and gave my input there.
I learned how to write a press release, I learned how to we did, I basically got to experience every single department in that police department. I sat in on the dispatchers, and I answered calls and said, "911, how can I take your call?"
It was just, it was really, really, it was a really cool experience. I did forensics.
It was amazing. I did it for a whole year too, so, you're able to do it for a whole year, and I got college credit for both of them.
So that's something that really boosted my GPA tremendously. I have six credits total Boosted my GPA, it will show up on my transcript, so my future colleges will see it, my future employers will see it, everyone will see it and
also something really cool about our internship program they allow each and every student to have one paid internship
for one semester. So I got paid for working. So it was not only am I getting hands on experiences that are direct experiences into the careers and
fields that I want to go into, but I'm getting college credit and I'm getting paid? So, it's amazing. We actually have Christina Garcia who's one of the
DREAMer allies, she's with the College and Career Center, she's a counselor and she has experience advising undocumented students. So we will include her contact information so you can reach out to her. Next slide please?
Phoebe: Okay, so,
the next step after, you know, you get in contact with
with your student organizations and you have these opportunities to get involved. What do you do then?
So it's a good way to begin networking in community college. Networking, by definition, is the interacting with other people to exchange information and develop contacts, especially to further in one's career,
and so that might come off a little bit confusing, but I'm sure most of you have already networked,
or have done some sort of very simple networking in community college already, which is, you know, asking for contact information have a classmate,
because you're you know that you're going to need help from them
later on, and you might choose a classmate who you see that is involved, and who understands the material,
because you know that they would be more likely to help you then a classmate who, you know, never shows up or you can tell it's very busy and just not very interested in that class,
or becoming mutuals with someone on social media for only school and career goals.
So, you know, you have somebody who is in your class, in our major, and you follow them on Instagram, but you don't really like anything else about them other than the fact that you know that later on you might need something from them. You might need,
you know, questions about if they get into a certain program that you want to get into, or if they already are,
you keep those connections, because you know that they have, they have some knowledge that you would like to know,
and so for those who don't know, mutual is, you know, being friends with somebody on social media and then their friends with you back, not just a one way thing where you follow somebody because,
you know, they have something that is a certain another reason, you should follow people that have, you know, the career goals or the careers that, you know, your goal is in to keep you motivated every time you're on social media, but
it's about making those, you know, really important connections in your field. So, next slide please?
So a take away the three main points that Isaac Serwanga discusses in this video. So in this video, he talks about the three bones of networking for student success.
This is a TED x talk that he did at CSUS and I'm not going to go through the whole video I just, you know, the link is just for
that one section where he talks about the three points that you need, but if you have time, I would definitely suggest going and watching the whole video. It was really informative.
Is there?...
How do I go to click the video?
Michael Ashton: I can actually play it and if you just want to tell me when to stop, that's all we need to do.
Phoebe: Okay, perfect. Thank you.
Michael: No problem. So you want me to play the video now?
Phoebe: Yeah, it'll link to where the part that I needed to be, begins. [Michael]: Okay.
Isaac Serwanga: So I want to share with you what I believe can be incredibly important for young people, how do we teach young people the principles of networking? Three bones to networking.
Three simple bones and you guys all know this. We all know this, it's common sense, but sometimes, common sense is not common practice. So the first bone of networking:
wishbone.
Whether your college graduate or you're at elementary school, what do you want, and who can help you attain that?
Alejandro had it, he wanted to be a lacrosse coach and he knew that he had to reach out to a lacrosse community to take that very next step.
Bone number two: jaw bone. Now there's two components to a jaw bone: competency and humility. Competency and humility. Competency,
do you know what you're talking about?
Have you done your research? One of the reasons I believe Profound Ivy was so good at what it, at producing results, was because before students would reach out, we made sure that they did research on their industry and then their company, and then the department,
and then the position, and then the individual.
So before they began to network, they had so much extensive knowledge, by the time they open their mouths people were intrigued to hear what they had to say.
The other part of that jaw bone: humility.
You can know everything in the world, but if people don't like you, [crowd laughs]
if people don't like you, they will not help you.
One simple part of humility is this and I'm wearing his shoes, these are Gary Vee shoes and he has this is principle that he says, and it's 51 49.
Whenever we make a relationship, and we're trying to connect with someone, it's usually 50/50,
but in networking, if we can learn how to be the 51,
if we can learn how to give more, if every time we reach out to someone, we can look and say, "What is it that they're looking for, and how can I help?" it puts us in a position to succeed. And last but not least, my favorite
the last bone that we need to network is the backbone.
Persist. Persist, persist.
The most common word in networking is the word no.
You'll hear it over and over again.
I like to tell students this story, and I'll tell it to you the same way. I wanted to become an author I had no idea how to begin.
Very simple formula and I wanted to follow my own advice. I wanted to reach out to 10 authors who wrote in the particular area that I wanted to write in. I read 10 of their books at the end of their book I saw their email, I reached out to the 10 authors. Of the 10 authors I reached out to,
two replied to me.
Of the two that got back to me, one responded and he was a best selling author and I'm so excited, and I opened the email that says, "Good luck." [crowd laughs]
But there was one guy,
a guy by the name of Adam, someone who I still talk to him to this day. Adam called me, Adam spoke to me on the phone for three hours.
Adam taught me how to market a book, how to publish a book, how to write chapter by chapter and at the end of our call Adam told me, "Call me when you finish chapter one."
Powerful.
Powerful, through networking.
Through networking.
That was my passion to become an author and networking got me there. The reason why I believe these three bones to networking is so crucial in today's world is because young people have to understand this is a skill set.
I envision a time where networking is taught, just like math, just like reading, just like writing, because in the 21st century, I truly, truly believe,
truly believe that networking is the currency of our age today. An individual who has the ability to make connections with one another, you'll always be in a place where you can progress, where you can go forward.
Skill sets are okay, right, most people think of networking as a skill set,
but I hope with today and I hope going forward that we can start to teach younger people that networking is also a
[Phoebe]: Thank you. [Isaac]: skill set, but it's also a mind set. [Phoebe]: Oh you can, you can stop it. Sorry,
I didn't know when was a good time to request to stop the video, but thank you. So could you go to the next slide, please? [Isaac]: And you're right.
Phoebe: So yeah, so this is a great video and I really recommend watching it on your own free time,
but really it's three steps where knowing what you want and who can obtain that. So what I said earlier about networking is, you know, knowing really what your passion and your career goal is, and knowing who's already there, and who can help you, who is farther along in the process,
but not just yet there so that, you know, they still remember what it was like to kind of be in your shoes and and they're more likely to help you,
as well as competency and humility. Know what you need to know and ask, when you get more into knowing about networking and you get more into, when
you go into lectures, one of the biggest takeaways, they want you to take is, you know, don't waste somebody's time, especially when it's bigger in your career field and they're taking time out of their day, their very busy schedules, know what you want to ask them and be prepared,
as well as being somebody that, that people want to help the people want to talk to you and to teach you, so, you know, be kind, introduce yourself to everybody that you meet,
that's a really big takeaway. I know it's definitely hard in this new reality of COVID, but once we get back, you know, to normal in quotes,
once we get back to normal, to really introduce yourself to everyone and especially in college, whether you're a first year, third year, everyone deep down is uncertain of people's opinions of each other, you know, nobody
wants nobody to like them.
People want to be liked, and people want to talk, and people want to be included, and if you've been in those situations where you felt unincluded,
take that, you know, that memory and make it realize that you want to be the person that includes, not the person that's not being included,
and even if you're not being included, then find a way to make yourself the one who includes someone else who's not being included, and that's a great way to,
you know, make the situation that you're in better, and persist, do not let failures discourage you. You need to learn how to grow and walk away from failure because no one in life succeeds at everything,
and even if you, you know, you fail, that just means that it's an opportunity to try again. It's an opportunity to start the process over again.
And there's more
there's so much more to learn from networking that, you know, I couldn't possibly go over because I'm still learning about that myself, but there's so many TED x videos that can help you. There's so many resources, even at Moorpark College.
There's an MC LEADS Program that I'll be talking about in a second.
You know, Kristen Robinson does a great presentation about networking and she really goes into this presentation that she actually created for graduate students and, you know, she's able to present that for community college students. So, next slide please?
Yeah, so making a connection with everyone that you meet. Every person is unique in their own way and everybody has a story to tell,
even if you don't like them, you know, they are the reason they are for a unique and
different reason than you, and we're all human. So it's really just important to be kind and be respectful and
the golden rule that I was taught when I was raised was, you know, treat people the way that you want to be treated, and as I've grown older I've realized that I don't like that because
I think it should be treat people the way they want to be treated. You know, respect people's boundaries.
You know, I think we get so, we often hurt people, because we think like, "Oh, well, I wouldn't be offended if someone told me that," or "I wouldn't care if someone did that to me,"
but that's, you know, and because we think like, "Oh, well, I wouldn't care if that happened to me. So why should they care that happened to them?" you really have to take away the fact that people are different than you, and you need to be kind to everyone and you need to, you know, ask people's
permission before you do things that might make them uncomfortable. No one's going to be upset if you're on the safer side of people's boundaries.
And like I said earlier, introduce yourself to everyone. Be kind, you know, if you don't agree with somebody about something and it's really not worth your time,
then don't start an argument, especially if it's something that's not really important. And this just mostly goes for community college because you will get people that do not have the same opinion as you,
and that, that's fine, they were just educated a different way, and you kind of just still have to respect that opinion. So like I said,
Kristen Robinson has a great way of, you know, more of networking in your career kind of sense and not really towards your other peers, which is kind of what I was talking about,
but that's in the MC LEADS Program. There's more information on that at Moorpark college.edu/ leads as well as contacting her directly at k robinson@vcccd.edu.
And like I said, you know, reading books, listening to podcasts, and, you know, watching different YouTube videos that talk more about networking. So, next slide please?
And questions, we, you know, ended about 22 minutes early, but you're more than welcome anybody to mute, wait, can they unmute themselves?
Michael: They can raise their hand and then one at a time we can unmute them to ask their question.
Phoebe: And if you don't want to ask your question now, or if you have
any other
questions that you have later on, or if you start to, you know, think about something next week, you're more than welcome to
email me, or email Gerald, or text me, or call me, leave me a voicemail, and I'd be more than happy to help you, and for any of the, you know, incoming freshmen or college students, even that's a great opportunity to network is, you know, contacting one of us and introducing yourself and practicing.
So, yeah.
Karla: Thank you Phoebe for that. So we did have someone who raised their hand. Her name is Pauline Nassar, so please go ahead and answer you and ask your question or share a comment.
Pauline Nassar: Hi everyone. I just wanted to say thank you so much for having this. This was amazing. All the information that was given, you guys did a great job, like
it definitely will make me want to be more involved and I'm sure other students feel the same way, you guys gave amazing information, and I'm so excited to go back and look at everything, but one, I had a few questions. So about SS triple C for Gerald, I'm interested in
that vacant spot that you mentioned earlier, how do I get more information on this?
Gerald: Great question. I will include the information in the chat. So you would just send an email to either me or my regional affairs director and you which and say, "Hi, I am interested in
running for the position of Vice Chair for Region Six,
how do I get more involved?" I will say though, you must be nominated from your student body association. So whichever campus,
you go to, let's say, Moorpark, for example, you would have to reach out to ASMC and say, "Hi, I'm interested in serving at a regional level, or a state level, could I please be nominated?" and then I believe the delegate is the Director of Student Advocates Isabel or...
Pauline: Isabella, yeah.
Gerald: Isabella. So you would just, she would interview you, and she would nominate you at the delegate assembly which is actually coming up on the 30th.
Pauline: Okay, that's awesome. Okay, thank you so much. I have another question. How do I contact for an internship...
at Moorpark, through Moorpark College, like just like how you did, how you got credits for it?
Gerald: Yes, certainly. So they're actually two points of contacts for internships at Moorpark College. You could do it through the Career Transfer Center,
I know Giselle's an amazing contact or I would personally contact directly Dr. Celine Park, she's an amazing resource or Raul Torres.
I'll also include their information in the chat as well. I would just say, which area, so how, when I messaged him for an internship, they said, "Hey, what, what's your major? What
career interests do you have?" I said, law, legislation, policy and then they matched me up with a couple of options that they had. I would do that as well.
Pauline: Okay, thank you so much. Thank you.
Karla: For students also who are interested in pursuing internships, and your situation may be that you have DACA or you have, or you
want to pursue an unpaid internship,
contact the Career Transfer Center and make sure you schedule your appointment with Cristina Garcia, she is very familiar with undocumented students' situations so you can definitely get your resume taken a look at.
As a matter of fact, we're having a workshop this Wednesday about it, and she will be able to sit with you and let you know what internships you can potentially qualify for too.
It seems like we have another hand.
Here. Let's see.
Welcome Dina.
Dina Pielaet: Hi, can you hear me?
Karla: Yes, I can hear you.
Dina: Well, first of all I wanted to
say, Karla, you're doing
an amazing job, as always. I am so impressed with these students. This is really a serious question. I am a 62 year old staff member,
and these students are so right on emotionally, mentally, and in terms of their messaging, they should be mentoring us.
We need student to staff or student to adult mentor, we need mentoring from them. They're fantastic seriously. We need to have more
dialogue more public dialogue like this, and I'm just wondering if that's maybe it's a question to Kristen, but boy, I sure would love to have more and more shares from these students. They're so wonderful.
Phoebe: Awe, thank you, Dina. It's Phoebe talking. I don't know if you can tell.
I really enjoyed seeing you at our events, recently, I saw you this morning saw you last week at the speaker for the walk of immigrants.
Your input is always very kind. You have such kind words and thank you. Hopefully I get to see you when we go back on campus I can introduce myself to you, face to face, but thank you for your kind words. Yeah.
Dina: And I mean, I'm serious. I want to
follow you guys around and just learn from you. Fantastic. Thanks again.
Gerald: Thank you, Dina, you are just
you are just so incredible. Like, I'm so amazed with your work all the time, which you just seen Karla's excitement with all the stuff that you made. I am just so impressed and I'm just, like you were like a legend. So to hear you say that put the biggest smile on my face. Thank you.
Dina: Thank you Gerald,
you are kind too, but I am serious I want to follow you around.
Karla: Thank you, Dina.
Any other questions from our students or from any other staff?
Phoebe: I know there was a question earlier that Karla, you had asked him to reach out to me or Gerald I think it was Daniel Penaloza, I don't believe he's still in watching anymore.
But...
Karla: No, he left
right away, but I did provide him with your information. I didn't realize you were sharing your Gmail account.
So he just made getting contact with you through your student.
Phoebe: Okay, that's okay. I'm linked to both, but for, you know, any students who are watching this right now, or after it's, you know, recorded
as a, you know, DACA student myself, or sorry different thing. For the different requirements, that's just something that you could reach out to different
the different organizations that are running it. I know some are like you have to have a GPA of this level or some are, you know, you have to be
in some credits of this or you have to be this year of age, it all varies, but mostly, you know, people are very kind about it,
and there's not there's not a certain eligible like, something that's eligible that you're never going to be able to reach. So if it's a GPA thing, you know, you can try the next semester. If it's a unit thing you can try the next semester when you add on more units.
And then the other thing I wanted to say was, yeah, as a DACA student myself, there hasn't been too much Moorpark that I haven't been I don't think anything that I haven't been eligible to do with not being a US citizen.
Yeah so Moorpark is very accessible for fully undocumented and even DACA mented students. So don't let, you know, it's hard to not let, you know, your fear of
talking about your situation, stop you from accessing certain programs or accessing certain goals, but it
Moorpark is a very inclusive campus, and even if you come to Karla, we can, you know, find out some information on your behalf, if, you know, if you're too afraid to ask a certain question to someone that you don't know about your situation.
Karla: Thank you Phoebe for that.
Any other questions from the audience?
Alright, so it seems that there are no more follow up questions. Please feel free to get in contact with Phoebe or Gerald if you have any follow up questions, take a picture of this slide.
The next workshop is actually hosted by Oxnard College and it's Undocu Hustle on how to start your own business. So go ahead and join us in that one, you will be able to see, you will be able to actually be in a bigger part of, excuse me,
in a bigger conversation because the community is also invited. So we're looking forward to having you there, and anyone else who will be interested in starting their own business, regardless of immigration status.
Thank you. Phoebe, thank You Gerald, for joining us today and thank you for everyone who provided with comments and questions.
Bye Bye everyone.
Gerald: Bye everyone.