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Alumni Weekend Breakfast

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We hosted an open house of our La Raza Association Officer with a light breakfast for our alumni to be able to visit and reminisce about the space that they helped us secure. Breakfast ranged from bagels to pan dulce and orange juice to coffee. Our Association Office is a sacred space for many of us and we recognize that we would not have this space if it had not been for those who came before us, our La Raza alumni. We had a great time chatting with alumni Cecilia Rendon and Marisa Arrona, both Class of 2003. They were able to take pictures and teach us a bit about our La Raza history.

Native Land Acknowledgement


We take a moment to recognize that Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin) (Hoo-Choon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo (Cho-Chen-yo) speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma (Muh-wek-muh) Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.

We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has benefited, and continues to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land since the institution's founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university's relationship to Native peoples. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold the University of California, Berkeley more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.