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put in the long hours necessary to become a professional in the field,” Richardson said. Allen said one of the biggest rewards during her academic career was completing her thesis, which was about one hundred pages long. Allen said that during her undergraduate and graduate career she suffered from depression, but has found strength because of her battle with it.
Allen said she helped parent both of her younger siblings after her parents got divorced during college. After grieving her parents’ divorce and feeling much happier, she said she feels her challenges have helped her grow. “(Depression) was an obstacle, but I have found it’s really important not to give up,” Allen said. “If I give up the universe is going to win. You have to keep trying.”
Allen has been working as an assistant editor at the New Mexico Historical Review, she said, and has loved working with the authors, writing and editing. She said it was one of the most amazing and rewarding experiences. Allen hopes to someday teach at a university. She said one of her dreams is to someday have the opportunity to teach at UNM and continue the work that her professors did in inspiring students to learn about history.
“I would love to come back and teach at UNM. My department is interested in expanding the modern European section and that would be amazing,” Allen said. Megan Holmen is a freelance news and culture reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo. com, culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @megan_holmen.
Undocumented student finds community at UNM By Shayla Cunico @ShaylaCunico The University of New Mexico’s diverse campus community is home to students and staff from all over the world, with 2018 graduate Paola Monarrez being one of them. Monarrez originally came to New Mexico 24 years ago from Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico as an undocumented immigrant. “The most wonderful thing that I found about UNM was the fact that (the University) never discriminated against me for not being a citizen,” she said. Starting at UNM in 2009, before the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was passed, Monarrez said she was very grateful that being undocumented was one of the last things that she had to worry about when pursuing her degree. “I think that being an undocumented person made me feel as if I was incarcerated in my
own city. You never feel the liberty of being able to say you can just go anywhere,” she said. Shortly after coming to UNM, Monarrez found a welcoming community at El Centro de La Raza, UNM’s Latinx resource center, after being introduced to Armando Bustamante, she said. “He offered (support), and I knew that I was with family,” Monarrez said. El Centro de La Raza offers student support and resources such as community outreach programs, learning facilities and academic development. As time went on, Monarrez said that her professors and other students made her feel more comfortable on campus, and she never felt like she didn’t belong. Monarrez first came to UNM in hopes of pursuing an undergraduate degree in Architecture, but did not get accepted as an undergrad, she said. Due to this, Monarrez began to pursue a degree in liberal arts with a concentration in
Community and Regional planning, as well as Chicano and Chicana studies. “I think that was supposed to happen,” Monarrez said. “I found poetry, due to me going into Chicano and Chicana studies, the class offered by Jessica Helen Lopez, helped me find something that I could be really good at.” Monarrez said that her most memorable moment at UNM was getting to work on models in her architecture classes, and her experience doing work in her Borderland Poetics class. Monarrez said that her plan after graduation is to take a year off to work on a poetry book and travel before applying to graduate school at the UNM school of Architecture. Shayla Cunico is a music and culture reporter with the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @ShaylaCunico.
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