{"id":686,"date":"2007-09-05T20:30:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2007\/09\/05\/success-after-college-viva-quad-cities-scholarship-recipients-tell-their-story\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T20:13:38","slug":"success-after-college-viva-quad-cities-scholarship-recipients-tell-their-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/success-after-college-viva-quad-cities-scholarship-recipients-tell-their-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Success After College, Viva Quad Cities Scholarship Recipients Tell Their Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gabriela_nuez_reagan\"<\/a>The First Generation<\/b><\/i>
\nGabriela Nu\u00f1ez-Reagan is a first grade bilingual education instructor in Belvidere, Ill. a town twelve miles from to Rockford. She was also a recipient of the first ever Viva Quad Cities scholarships in 1994.
\nNu\u00f1ez-Reagan was a three year winner of the scholarship and said only a few won the award that first year. \u201cIt helped me a lot because before Viva, there were not a lot of scholarships for Hispanics in the area,\u201d she said.
\nShe graduated from Western Illinois University with a Bachelors Degree as a Bilingual-Bicultural teacher and received her
\n masters from Northern Illinois University as a reading\/special education instructor. Nu\u00f1ez-Reagan came to the United States from Celaya, Guanajuato Mexico in tenth grade and attended Moline High School.
\n\u201cIt was very hard the first year. I didn\u2019t have a lot of support, I wanted to drop out and go back to Mexico,\u201d she said.
\nWith the help of Stephanie Jordan, an ESL instructor at Moline High School she learned English and later was enrolled in the honor classes.
\n\u201cI wanted to be a teacher because of her and I wanted to become a bilingual teacher,\u201d Nu\u00f1ez-Reagan said.
\nAs a bilingual instructor who had to deal with the language barrier as well as other hardships that immigrant students face when they first arrive, she feels like she can understand where they come from.
\n\u201cI know about the culture and understand the families and where they come from. That\u2019s why I became a bilingual teacher to help the Hispanic community, just to give back,\u201d she said.
\nGabriela Nu\u00f1ez-Reagan is the daughter of Jose and Carmen Nu\u00f1ez and is now married with a child Brianna and is expecting a second one.
\n\u201cI\u2019m very grateful to my parents who brought me to this country and for all the moral support and encouragement to be something in life. They\u2019re doing the same with my brother, Jose and sister Elia,\u201d she said.
\nHer brother, Jose Nu\u00f1ez is a recipient of the Viva Quad Cities scholarship this year and is studying electrical engineering.
\n\u201cShe (Gabriela) inspired me because I guess I want to show my parents that I can reach my goal and graduate from college,\u201d he said.
\nGabriela Nu\u00f1ez-Reagan agreed saying that she wanted them to keep trying.
\n\u201cWe face many struggles with family but si se puede. We need them, lots of them,\u201d she said.
\n\"2007_viva_scholarship_winners\"<\/a>The Next Generation<\/i><\/b>
\nMarisol and Sandra Trevi\u00f1o are newer recipients of the award. Marisol works for AT&T as a customer consultant. Sandra works for AmeriCorp a company that provides free non-criminal legal assistance for low income families.
\nThe two sisters want to further their education. Marisol already has a B.S. in Business administration and a B.A. in Spanish. She wants to also get a Masters in business and use that degree in her career. She was a three time award winner of the scholarship. Sandra wants to go to law school and eventually get her J.D. which is needed to become a lawyer. She was a two time winner of the scholarship.
\nThe young ladies are daughters of Juan and Lilia Trevi\u00f1o of Rock Island and gave credit to their parents on pushing them about how important education was. Juan was adopted in Tamaulipas and Lilia is from El Valle de Guadalupe, Michoacan, Mexico.
\n\u201cThey were very open to it,\u201d Marisol Trevi\u00f1o said about the numerous years in college.
\n\u201cBut at the same time it was difficult because they didn\u2019t go through the same things we were going through so they didn\u2019t understand why we needed to stay out late at the library.\u201d Sandra Trevi\u00f1o said.
\nBoth girls attended a Catholic school, Alleman High School and said the transition from public to private school was the most difficult thing. They agreed that the school prepared them for college.
\nSandra Trevi\u00f1o is looking forward to becoming a professional, being respected and having that prestige, saying that was what pushed her through college.
\n\u201cI had to do this, so if anybody had a doubt in me, I\u2019m going to prove them wrong when I finish,\u201d she said.
\nMarisol Trevi\u00f1o would like to see more Latinos in higher power, having higher positions saying it would be a great motivational tool.
\n\u201cIn the near future, we\u2019re going to be the majority but at the rate we\u2019re going, we have nothing to show for it. To me I don\u2019t want to be a statistic, what motivated me was to be a Latina who went to school and succeeded,\u201d she said.
\nViva Quad Cities President, Luis Puentes who\u2019s own daughter received a Viva award and is now a teacher herself; he spoke as a parent seeing their child win a scholarship.
\n\u201cWhenever a child is awarded a scholarship, it\u2019s a privilege. There\u2019s many who apply but only a few get those scholarships,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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