Richmond, California, June 11, 2021 – Nearly 100 students, the largest ever class to graduate from Making Waves Academy (MWA), celebrated their achievements at...
Over the past decade, demographic changes in the Bay Area have become impossible to ignore. Gentrification has displaced low-income families of color from the neighborhoods they called home for generations, and Contra...
May 24, 2021
Crises, especially prolonged ones, test an institution’s core values. The five core values of Making Waves Academy (MWA) – community, resilience, respect, responsibility, and…
April 29, 2021
CAP’s Director of Financial Services, Ivette Chavez, vividly recalls the first time she became aware of her own student loan debt, as she sat…
April 1, 2021
Over the past four months, we have ended each Q&A in this CSI blog series with the same question: “What keeps you up at night?” Across the board, these worries have focused on the health and well-being of college students and their families…
March 18, 2021
When asked to trace the source of her strength and success, Jamaya Walker (12th Wave) immediately thinks of her mother: “My mom is like superwoman. I can’t afford…
February 25, 2021
Dear members of the Making Waves community, Over the past year, violence toward Asian and Pacific Islander communities has increased dramatically. Racist rhetoric calling…
February 25, 2021
The California State University (CSU) is the largest four-year public university in the country, and is also the most ethnically and economically diverse, with…