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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.

There are options to fill out the below webform if you prefer to submit your story over writing or to submit a video (example here!) if you prefer to share verbally.


🎙️ Share your story

Answer the following questions to be featured on our website and/or social media, like Instagram and LinkedIn. We might lightly edit answers for length and grammar.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Your Name(Required)
(e.g., she/her/her)
Your Email Address(Required)
Are you a first-gen college grad or student?
Please share a graduation photo and/or photo of you during college
Drop files here or
Max. file size: 25 MB, Max. files: 5.
    Media release


    📱 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!

    This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
    Your Name(Required)
    (e.g., she/her/her)
    Your Email Address(Required)
    Are you a first-gen college grad or student?
    Drop files here or
    Max. file size: 25 MB, Max. files: 5.
      Media release

      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.