ALICIA MAGANA
BIOGRAPHY
Alicia Magana is a young woman who strives to be the best in everything that she does!
Resourceful should be her middle name according to the other interns.
Realizing that to maintain her intership at CHISPA, continue her studies at UC Santa Cruz, persevere with the elementary students she tutors in Santa Cruz, and graduate in May, she took a leaky-tub leaky-roof apartment in Salinas
and made the necessary repairs herself using her housing skills.


Alicia's no-nonsense attitude about life came from her extended family ties. She says she learned at a young age that you do whatever must be done to accomplish the goals you set. Alicia has been an asset to the Internship program. Her pert, yet pleasing personality enabled her to obtain the additional job working with the elementary school children.


Originally from South Central Los Angeles, Alicia is familiar with the affordable housing problems throughout the nation, particularly in the rural communities.
Working as a literacy tutuor for the "America Reads Program" since 1997, enabled Alicia to appreciate her communication and bilingual skills. She is fluent
in three languages. Alicia's personallity mandates her dependability, loyalty and motivation. She feels that people should contribute all their efforts to provide the best results in work and life.


Alicia has already decided that she wants to dedicate her professional career
to housing development and community service. After this Internship is completed and she has all the necessary skills and resources, she wants to implement special programs in some of the disadvantaged communities near her home town.


COMMENTS FROM HER PROFESSORS:


"Alicia has a deep commitment to working on issues of rural poverty in California and is working on issues of rural poverty in California and is working to make a
more humane world." (David Brundage)"Alicia has taken her expertise out of the classroom into the community. I feel fortunate to work with such a capable person." (Sara Riccabona)


Since opening its doors in 1965, UC Santa Cruz has held a distinctive position in the UC system as a collegiate university devoted to excellence
in undergraduate teaching and research. The Santa Cruz campus offers
a small-college setting combined with the considerable resources of a
major public university. UC Santa Cruz is dedicated to the belief that
an education in the liberal arts and sciences offers the best possible
preparation for leading a meaningful life and making a living.


UC Santa Cruz offers over 40 traditional majors in the arts, engineering, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Programs are challenging and rigorous, yet flexible enough to meet special interests
and needs. Undergraduates have opportunities to assist faculty with
research and often publish papers in academic journals. UC Santa Cruz
is arguably the most beautiful campus in the world. Its physical setting is a perfect blending of award-winning architecture and a natural environment of redwood forests and open meadows. Located on the Central Coast of California 75 miles south of San Francisco,
UC Santa Cruz commands breathtaking views of Monterey Bay and the
Pacific Ocean. At UC Santa Cruz, eight residential colleges--where
students live, study, and socialize--encircle a state-of-the-art
academic core of classrooms, studios, and laboratories dedicated to study and research.

UC SANTA CRUZ
INTERNSHIP HOST AGENCY (CHISPA)

Community Housing Improvement Systems and Planning Association, Inc.
(CHISPA) is a non-profit, community-based housing development organization whose main objectives are to construct, own, and manage low- and very-low-income housing, and to promote revitalization of blighted low-income neighborhoods.
Local citizens make up its Board of Directors, who have extensive experience with real estate, law, and finance. They also serve on other community organizations which promote minority participation and deal with other housing-related issues. CHISPA's housing projects have served Monterey County's lowest-income population, primarily Mexican-American farmworker families and senior citizens of the Salinas Valley, for over seventeen
years. To date, CHISPA has produced over nine hundred units of housing for low-income households. CHISPA is the largest private non-profit housing developer in Monterey County.


UCSC

CHISPA, Inc.

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