Jocelyn Torres

Jocelyn Torres (she/her/ella) is a third-year student double majoring in English and Education and Social Transformation at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a proud first-generation daughter of immigrant farmworkers raised in the Central Valley, Porterville, CA. She is currently involved as a peer advisor for Xinachtli de UCLA, serves as a peer counselor for the Academic Advancement Program, is the recruitment and retention advisor for Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority Inc., and is a peer mentor for the Central Valley Project at UCLA (CVP). She also recently did a research study under the Research Rookies program at UCLA in which she examined the pipeline of Latinx students from the Central Valley entering the University of California (UC) system.