{"id":14702,"date":"2020-01-01T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=14702"},"modified":"2019-12-18T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T16:28:28","slug":"2019-vegetarian-scholarship-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/01\/2019-vegetarian-scholarship-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 VEGETARIAN SCHOLARSHIP WINNER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Karina was one of VRG’s 2019 college scholarship winners. She sent this note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transition to college has been more than I could expect. It\u2019s only\nbeen a semester, but my life has definitely changed for the better. I couldn\u2019t\nthank you enough for this opportunity. I\u2019m a first gen student, and didn\u2019t\nfully know what college was, or what it could bring. My parents don\u2019t know\nanything about college, and so I\u2019ve had to figure it out on my own. At the UNLV\nHonors College, I have been blown away by the opportunities I can have if I\nwork hard enough. The teachers, administration, and students I have met have\nonly inspired me to work harder for my passions. I feel so supported when I\ntalk about my plans, and they help me figure out how I can make that happen and\nin ways better than I imagined. I definitely think I chose the right\ncollege. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although UNLV is a very diverse campus, I saw very little\nvegan\/vegetarian activity. I was going to try and join a vegetarian or environmental\nclub, but there was only one on campus and it is not too active. It became\nreally difficult to try and find some sort of vegetarian community, which I\nthought would be easier. The campus has very little options for people that are\nplant-based. Since there has been so much progress in plant-based foods, I\nthought there would be more options in the food trucks and restaurants at\nschool, but there isn\u2019t at all. In September, I met with one of my honors\ncollege advisors to talk about this. We discussed some of the changes that\ncould occur at UNLV regarding veganism. He suggested for me to start with\ngetting the word out. Eventually, he thinks it would be a really good idea to\nstart a club within the honors college to help advocate more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, I\u2019ve been working on establishing friendships and a sense of\ncommunity with people that may have interests relating to\nvegetarianism\/veganism or just being environmentally friendly. The honors\ncollege had a Friendsgiving the day before Thanksgiving, and it became the\nperfect opportunity to bring in my own food and be able to discuss the beauties\nof being vegan. I have made friends with a teacher that has also helped me come\nup with ideas because she\u2019s been a vegetarian since she was eleven. She finds\nthe healthiness and nutrition behind plant-based diets important, and so she\nsuggested I try to get healthier food choices on campus. I\u2019ve been told that I\nhave brought more positive attitudes about veganism without becoming the\n\u201cstereotypical and annoying vegan.\u201d Since there are a couple vegan restaurants\nclose to campus, I\u2019ve introduced more people to how good vegan food can be and\nhave made friends that try to make more conscious food choices now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you once again for this. I knew that going to college would be\ngreat for me, but I didn\u2019t realize just how much I could do. Somehow, my dreams\ngot bigger and I\u2019m more motivated to work harder. I\u2019ll keep you updated. This\nis definitely only the beginning of the journey for me! I have a lot of dreams\nto help others, not only with veganism, but also with mental health, and am\nexcited to work on making them come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you so much, Karina Rose Carrillo-Juarez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see Karina’s vegan activism in high school, see https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/10\/nevada-student-wins-10000-vegetarian-resource-group-scholarship\/<\/a>

VRG awards $20,000 in college scholarships each year to graduating high school seniors. The annual deadline is February 20th. For application information, or to see past winners, go to https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To support additional scholarships or internships, donate at www.vrg.org\/donate<\/a> Under comments, indicate the purpose of the donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karina was one of VRG’s 2019 college scholarship winners. She sent this note: The transition to college has been more than I could expect. It\u2019s only been a semester, but my life has definitely changed for the better. I couldn\u2019t thank you enough for this opportunity. I\u2019m a first gen student, and didn\u2019t fully know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14704,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions\/14704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}