Araceli Hernandez

Araceli Hernandez ('18) is a Political Science major specializing in American Politics at the University of California, Berkeley. Through her experiences on various political campaigns in her home district, interning at the United States Department of Education in Washington D.C., with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and working in the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, she has realized her passion for addressing inequalities and inequities in public education, specifically for underrepresented groups. She hopes to use her knowledge of Political Science and past experiences to eventually contribute to the improvement of flaws in public education. Through all of these experiences, Araceli has come to understand the power of non-profit organizations and hopes that while participating in the Spring 2018 UCDC Program and interning with two organizations, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Libraries Without Borders, she will come to understand how they create the reports that influence government policies. Araceli’s future goals involve continuing in the educational world, but also eventually attaining a Master's in Public Policy and a Doctorate in Education. In the Fall of 2017, Araceli studied abroad in Madrid, Spain at Universidad Carlos III- Madrid where her perspective of the world expanded drastically through enlightening Political Science courses in Spanish and experiences traveling throughout Europe.