ARC summer graduate and Young Professionals Board member, Gustavo Garcia, was on ABC in Sacramento last week! He promoted ARC’s summer course (applications are due on April 23), and he celebrated our partnership with Tahoe Fund. Gus shared at the end of the interview, “Right now, I am in college studying political science at the University of the […]
ARC Welcomes Summer Alumnus as Program Facilitator in Tahoe
As a student during the ARC 2020 summer course, Tony Marquez had a lot to contribute. He showed up with a radiant smile, a shock of bright green hair, and kind words for everyone. From the first day of the course he helped create a space where others felt comfortable sharing themselves with the group. […]
Finding Home with ARC: A Journey From Mexico to Dartmouth
Alexis Angulo began his ARC transformational essay with the question “What is home?” He wrote the essay in the final week of the 2015 Yosemite Summer Immersion Course, which he attended as a rising high school junior. Like many of us in high school, Alexis was questioning his identity and how he fit into the larger world. He […]
Identity Crisis: Overcoming a Clash of Cultures with ARC
As a teenager, Michelle Lee was at the center of a clash of cultures. At home in Merced, as a young Hmong woman, she imagined a traditional path for her future: marriage and nurturing children. She spoke only Hmong at home with her Mom. Meanwhile, at school, she was bullied when she used the language […]
ARC Alum Becomes A Cowboy Conservationist
Charly Mijares spent a lot of his childhood in the outdoors, but it wasn’t the glaciated peaks of Yosemite’s high country that were his first stomping grounds. From the time he was ten years old, he remembers, he would help his father weed out pomegranate orchards, train horses, and build irrigation ditches. He says, “In […]
From Venezuela to Lake Tahoe – A Remarkable Story
Forty days and thirty-nine nights living in the High Sierra wasn’t the biggest challenge that Virginia had experienced since her 15th birthday in January 2018. When she received the news that she was selected for the ARC summer course in Tahoe, it wasn’t even her most life-altering phone call in the last year. On August 18th 2017 […]