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Wave-Makers: What’s Your Motivation? Share Your Story!

Wave-Makers: What’s Your Motivation? Share Your Story!

We’re launching a new storytelling series showcasing the real experiences of students and alumni navigating college, career, and personal growth — and would love for Wave-Maker alums and students to be part of it! This is your chance to share what keeps you going, the struggles you’ve faced, and the wins you’ve accomplished to help current students going through similar experiences.

We’re launching a new storytelling series showcasing the real experiences of students and alumni navigating college, career, and personal growth — and would love for Wave-Maker alums and students to be part of it!

This is your chance to share your motivation — what keeps you going, the struggles you’ve faced, and the wins you’ve accomplished to help current students going through similar experiences.


📱 Submit a video

Would you rather be featured in a 30-60 sec video? Record yourself answering the above questions in your own style and we’ll take care of the editing!

We suggest starting with: “My motivation is…” and ending with “…so that’s why.” so we can edit the video on a loop. Here is an example!

Example video


💙 Questions?

If you have questions or would like more information reach out to Lead Marketing and Storytelling Intern Giovanna Barragan at gbarragan@making-waves.org.

CATEGORIES: News and Stories, Student Life
TAGS: Alumni, Career and Professional Development, First-Gen, Higher Education

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About Making Waves Education Foundation

At Making Waves, we are committed to educational equity. Making Waves Education Foundation is a Bay Area nonprofit that supports Making Waves Academy – a public charter school with more than 1,100 5th through 12th grade students – and leads college and career programming with more than 430 college students.​
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Knowing the opportunities that come with a college degree, we partner with historically underrepresented and underserved students to help make college affordable and graduation attainable. Centering the journeys of our students, our personalized approach includes college and career coaching, scholarships, and financial planning.​
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Our alumni network includes more than 730 college graduates, who earn their degrees and land jobs at more than twice the rate of their first-generation, low-income peers, with 85% graduating debt-free.