Undergraduate Helen Barahona interviews the directors of UC Irvine’s Dream Center and Basic Needs about their centers’ histories and missions, and about the obstacles that have stood in the way of their efforts to help students

With his multimedia, autoethnographic essay, UC Irvine graduate student and artist Alberto Lule shows what is possible in undergraduate writing. Identifying with the Palestinian American writer Edward Said, Lule explores what it felt like to be the child of Mexican immigrants and later the incarcerated adult who, “exiled in his own land,” finds himself through education.