Haawka (Kumeyaay greeting)
My name is Lane Yazzie, and I am
the Chair of the Native American Student Alliance at San Diego State
University. We are pleased to announce our Annual Youth Empowerment Conference
which will be on Saturday, March 14th, 2020. I was able to obtain your contact
information because I work as a student assistant in Enrollment Services within
the Office of Admissions at SDSU. We would appreciate it if you could share
this information with any Native American students, families, staff, and/or
counselors. We are currently seeking Native American and Indigenous
identified students from grades 7th-12th to attend our conference.
Each year NASA is able to
organize a high school conference for Indigenous youth. The theme for this
year's conference is, We Are the New Tradition: Empowerment through
Education.
With current movements towards
reclaiming spaces for Indigenous folks, we hope to empower our Indigenous youth
to join these movements and inspire them to create their own.
The purpose of our conference is
to unite Indigenous middle school and high school students and involve them in
deconstructing the notion that higher education is only pursuable by students
from privileged backgrounds. We want every student to be inspired to pursue
various paths of education, whether that be through community college,
four-year universities, or other outlets of success. We would greatly
appreciate it if you can share this conference information with prospective
Indigenous youth because we want to increase our attendance for this year's
conference!
THE DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS
FEBRUARY 28th, 2019 at 12 PM.
We will be posting conference
updates on our Facebook and Instagram (@SDSUNASA).
If you are interested in
volunteering or have any questions or concerns, please email us at NASA.SDSU.YEC@gmail.com
Thank you for your time, we hope
to see you at our Annual Youth Empowerment Conference.