Elisa Velasquez, Professor,
Psychology Department
Professor Elisa Velasquez started a collaborative project to support high school Latino students to bridge from high school to college. She worked with Sonoma Valley High School and two of her own classes at SSU as well as two community groups, Saint Joseph Health Systems-Sonoma County, Nuestra Voz Community Group of Sonoma, as well as the admissions office of SSU to conduct presentations to more than 150 students. This spring the CBC (Community Bridge to College) had a seven week mentoring program with 55 students from two SVHS students in which they held a campus visit (funded by the School of Social Sciences) to help the students overcome the main barriers to receiving a college education. Dr. Velasquez was the innovator and coordinator of the entire project. - Dr. Elaine Leeder, Dean, School of Social Sciences