Julio Fernando Salas Vargas stands at a podium in a ballroom. He's wearing a suit and glasses and is smiling as he speaks to people seated at round tables.
May 2023. Closing remarks speech at Queensborough’s 2023 Partners for Progress Gala at Terrace on the Park in Corona.

Updates

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2024

  • Diversity and Community Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
  • Panel Host, Research Projects in the Social Sciences and Humanities Panel: Journeys, Inspirations and Aspirations, and Futurities, UC Berkeley
  • Speaker, Linking Research to Passion - Graduate Diversity Admissions Fair, UC Berkeley
  • Fellow, Penn-Birmingham Transatlantic Migration Fellowship Program
  • National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families’ Professional Development Grant for Emerging Scholars Studying Poverty and Economic Mobility among Latino Populations
  • Sociology Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Fellowship (SEID), UC Berkeley
  • Getting into Graduate School (GiGS) Mentor, UC Berkeley
  • Co-Facilitator and Co-Creator, Latine Men in Higher Education Support Group
  • Panelist, Experience Diversity: FGLI @ Cal, U.C. Berkeley Graduate Division
  • Mentor, From Day One - Latinx Student Resource Center, U.C. Berkeley
  • Interview, Meet Julio Salas, CanvasRebel Magazine

2023

  • Workshop speaker, Kessler Scholars Collaborative First-Generation College Celebration
  • Panelist, Demystifying Graduate School Event, Graduate Association of Latinx Students
  • Panelist, Berkeley Sociology Graduate Diversity Admissions Fair Panel
  • Panelist, Raíces Recruitment and Retention Center First-Generation Graduate School Panel
  • Path to the Professoriate Program, University of California, Berkeley
  • Chancellor’s Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
  • Closing remarks speaker, Queensborough’s 2023 Partners for Progress Gala