Padah Vang \u201919<\/b>, of St. Paul, Minnesota, is one of only nine winners of the 2015 \u201cI\u2019m First!\u201d Scholarship. More than 1,000 first-generation students applied for the prestigious scholarship, awarded by the nonprofit Center for Student Opportunity. Vang\u2019s family members are Hmong from Laos, and she said the college process was difficult for her family to understand. One of the reasons she selected CC was the approachability of the students. \u201cWhen I visited I noticed how CC students interacted with and how they treated each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
She\u2019s contemplating an Independently Designed Major that combines social justice, photography, film, and media, because \u201cstorytelling is so powerful and healing.\u201d She hopes to create a student group for first-generation and low-income students to mentor prospective students. She\u2019s also one of the first-year students behind the \u201cHumans of CC<\/a>\u201d Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Padah Vang \u201919, of St. Paul, Minnesota, is one of only nine winners of the 2015 \u201cI\u2019m First!\u201d Scholarship. More than 1,000 first-generation students applied for the prestigious scholarship, awarded by the nonprofit Center for Student Opportunity. Vang\u2019s family members are Hmong from Laos, and she said the college process was difficult for her family…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-10071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-december-2015","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2015\/12\/CC-BUL-DECEMBER-07-News-Vang-2015.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10251,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions\/10251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}