Meet the board!
Access Coordinator: Joaquin ‘Jake’ Suaverdez
Hey, folks! My name is Joaquin ‘Jake’ Suaverdez. I am a fourth-year International Development Studies major and I am your Access Coordinator for the 2010-2011 school year. As AC, my mission in the simplest sense is to make sure that higher education is equitably accessible for all Pilipinos. I do this by advocating for policies that benefit the Pilipino community in terms of college accessibility and affordability. My duties also include overseeing our access project, Samahang Pilipino Advancing Community Empowerment (SPACE), which serves high school and community college students in Pilipinotown and the South Bay providing peer tutoring, peer advising, and various other programming. Being Access Coordinator also gives me the opportunity to be on the UCLA Student Initiated Access Committee (SIAC), on which I am the Vice Chair. The SIAC is comprised of individuals from organizations representing various communities advocating to make access to higher education equitable for all.
