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When Ms. Amy invited my sister and me to the Youth Philanthropy Conference (YPC) in Anaheim, all I could think about was the free trip to Disneyland, but that's not all I learned.
Recently, I was “Principal for a Day” at Dyer-Kelly Elementary School, a Title 1 school in the San Juan Unified School District that educates K-5 students, most of whom are students of color.
A framed letter once adorned a wall in my parent’s house and over time it moved from their living room to their family room, and then traveled across the country where it now rests in my home office, buried in a box. It is my acceptance letter to the University of California at Berkeley. For my parents—who immigrated to the United States without college educations of their own—that letter represented the good fortune of their hard work: their daughter was a student at one of the most prestigious universities in the country.
When I ask people to list some buzz words that describe the Sacramento Mandarins Drum & Bugle Corps (view their GivingEdge profile), they tend to say things like: music, band, drum corps, dance, performing arts, youth activity, nonprofit, Asian heritage. Yet when you ask a person who has marched with the Mandarins, you get a completely different set of words, as if it were a completely different organization.
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