La Alianza & LSAD PIPS Internships Panel

It is always a pleasure to collaborate with other student groups, especially when it comes to delivering helpful information to first-year students. On September 8th, LSAD and La Alianza hosted a Pubic Interest/Public Service (PIPS) panel where second-year students shared their summer experiences.

The panelists described what their day-to-day at their internships was as well as what their application process and timeline looked like. They reassured the audience that the PIPS sector has a wide range of application deadlines and there are many areas to explore. Additionally, panelists explained the Edley Grant process and how helpful it was to have received funding for the work they did during the summer. There was an excellent turnout. We cannot wait to see what this class ends up doing!

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.