Terri Forman

Our students, their health and well-being are our priority. We are monitoring the reports related to COVID-19 and will be guided by the recommendations of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). For now, we continue our work coaching students towards college access and success.

[fullwidth_text alt_background=”alt-ten” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] In remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and what he stood for, please join us in reading his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail“ [/fullwidth_text] [blank_spacer height=”30px” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] 16 April 1963 “My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city

[spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] Be sure to check out this article from CCN.com “Nearly half of this year’s class of US Rhodes Scholars are first-generation Americans!” [/spb_text_block] [spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] “(CNN) – The Rhodes Trust has announced the diverse class of American students who will study at the University of

[spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] *Grace Carballo is a FG volunteer who has graciously offered to sit down with some of our First Gen students for some informal interviewing, to check in, see what’s up with them at school, and what’s on the horizon! [/spb_text_block] [blank_spacer height=”30px” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″

[blank_spacer height=”30px” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] Every year FG high school seniors participate in college essay coaching workshops where they are connected with an FG volunteer who works with them during the beginning stages of their college essays. During these sessions, the volunteers help the students find ways to authentically tell

[spb_row wrap_type=”content-width” row_bg_type=”image” row_bg_color=”#00b0ff” color_row_height=”content-height” bg_type=”cover” parallax_image_height=”content-height” parallax_image_movement=”fixed” parallax_image_speed=”0.5″ parallax_video_height=”window-height” parallax_video_overlay=”none” row_overlay_opacity=”0″ row_padding_vertical=”20″ row_padding_horizontal=”0″ row_margin_vertical=”0″ remove_element_spacing=”no” inner_column_height=”col-natural” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] Besides participating in a 5-week summer academic program offered in collaboration with Aim High, First Graduate® middle school students visited UC Berkeley and the University of San Francisco for

[spb_row wrap_type=”content-width” row_bg_type=”image” row_bg_color=”#00b0ff” color_row_height=”content-height” bg_type=”cover” parallax_image_height=”content-height” parallax_image_movement=”fixed” parallax_image_speed=”0.5″ parallax_video_height=”window-height” parallax_video_overlay=”none” row_overlay_opacity=”0″ row_padding_vertical=”20″ row_padding_horizontal=”0″ row_margin_vertical=”0″ remove_element_spacing=”no” inner_column_height=”col-natural” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] First Graduate® middle school students spent Career Day learning about how The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Accenture, and Gap, Inc. do their work and the paths their talent took

[spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] To our students and families: we stand with you.These are difficult, unconscionable times, when it feels like everything we have trusted as part of our social covenant is going sideways.  Children are being forced to live in cages, separated from their parents; people are being shot with weapons that

Earlier this week, President Trump made a statement about potential large-scale deportation raids happening in the coming months. Recent reports suggests U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is expected to begin targeting immigrant families for raids, deportation, and family separation as early as this Sunday morning, before dawn. We cannot stop these cruel and unnecessary actions, but we can

[spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”2/3″ el_position=”first”] On behalf of the First Graduate® Board of Directors, I’m sharing an update on the leadership of First Graduate. Jose Rivas has decided to spend more time with his family; therefore he’s made the difficult decision to step down as Executive Director. Jose will act as First Graduate’s Controller  through