{"id":898,"date":"2020-02-05T17:40:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T22:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=898"},"modified":"2020-02-05T17:40:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T22:40:56","slug":"abigaile-sanchez-hernandez-city-college-of-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/abigaile-sanchez-hernandez-city-college-of-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Abigaile Sanchez Hernandez, City College of NY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"253\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Abigaile-Sanchez-Hernandez-City-College-of-NY-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Abigaile-Sanchez-Hernandez-City-College-of-NY-storybank.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Abigaile-Sanchez-Hernandez-City-College-of-NY-storybank-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m majoring in political science and minoring in journalism. After college, I plan to keep on working with grassroots political organizations with which my beliefs align morally and politically and work with communities who are disfranchised to help them find the resources to live comfortably in this society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t\nreceive any financial aid, so my parents and I are covering my tuition, book\ncosts, and transportation. I personally don&#8217;t need the child care center but\nwould appreciate it for other students. I know of a load of students that are\nalso parents. A center would take off the financial load of child care. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My\nbiggest challenge as a CUNY student has been taking classes that I need to\ngraduate on time and finding vegan options. I\u2019m concerned with graduating on\ntime because advisors are very inconsistent, and I\u2019ve taken classes that I\ndon\u2019t need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that we need a fully funded CUNY because there\u2019s a clear disparity in a lot of job fields, and we need a fully funded CUNY to diversify institutions that control what happens to real working-class people. Low-income students of color don\u2019t have the means to complete a bachelor\u2019s degree because of food insecurity, financial insecurity, and other challenges. If they were able to go to school and get a degree while not having to worry about money, these students could change the world! They would have more of a say over their lives and the lives of people who identify with them. I think that that would be a better pathway to an equal society, which is very essential in today\u2019s political climate. If we care about equality and diversity, CUNY needs to be fully funded! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m majoring in political science and minoring in journalism. After college, I plan to keep on working with grassroots political organizations with which my beliefs align morally and politically and work with communities who are disfranchised to help them find the resources to live comfortably in this society. I don\u2019t receive any financial aid, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,47,106],"tags":[158,14,105,27],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-44","category-senate-district-21","category-city-college-of-ny","tag-advisement","tag-childcare","tag-course-offerings","tag-food-costs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}