Hi everyone! My name is Carisse but I go by CJ. I'm a fourth year Design Media Arts major and film minor. A lot of my work revolves around marginalized communities, and personal Latina experiences. My specialty is working in extended realities (augmented reality, virtual, mixed, ect.). I transferred from Riverside City College and am now looking at my last 2 quarters at UCLA before leaving to Mexico City, then graduate school (hopefully in California). I’m still waiting to hear back from NYU, Columbia, UCLA, USC but I will find out soon.
I never got a chance to study abroad so I’m using the short summer after graduation to be a college student in Mexico City around UNAM. I’m also looking forward to have the best food in the world for a few months because no tortillas beat the ones that come from DF and I can’t find pulque anywhere around Los Angeles.
Not aware upon applying to UCLA, was I expecting to be enrolled into the most problematic non-diverse major on campus. It’s been frustrating to not have faculty with relatable backgrounds that can connect or push my work in a way members of minority communities could resonate with. I’ve signed up to join clubs on campus, but none of them met this year, so enrolled myself in this class in hopes to reconnect again with my community and learn about the social environment my parents experienced after arriving into the United States.
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