What's Happening

Keep up with the latest events, get acquainted with our Scholars, and learn the impact of your donations through our blog. So much is happening! We can’t wait to share the latest with you.

What's Happening

Keep up with the latest events, get acquainted with our Scholars, and learn the impact of your donations through our blog. So much is happening! We can’t wait to share the latest with you.

Aging Matters

Dr. Emma Violand Sanchez featured on Aging Matters Local program ‘Aging Matters’ featured Dream Project’s founder and chair Dr. Emma Violand Sanchez. In this interview Dr. Violand Sanchez talks about her life experiences growing up

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Dare to Dream Book Talks

As you may know, the Dream Project began 10 years ago at Emma Violand-Sanchez’s kitchen table. She organized a group of people who knew students’ immigration status should never limit their educational aspirations. The pandemic

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5 Golden Days of Giving

This year would have been the 10th anniversary of the Dream Project’s first holiday dinner fundraiser, which helped raise scholarship funds for our four original scholars in 2010. However, due to COVID-19 safety concerns and

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Dream Project Annual Report 2019-2020

While this year did not go at all as any of us planned, here at the Dream Project we accomplished a great deal. Mid-fiscal-year we were confronted with the pandemic and quickly pivoted to online

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Dream Summit 2020 – What We Learned

Written by: Carlos Puerta Even though the Dream Summit was virtual this year, there was a lot to learn—both from past and present. Here are the key things we learned: Accessibility was key Transitioning to

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VIEWPOINT: Advocate for the DREAM Act

July 19, 2020 by Abel Flores Leave a Comment In August 2001, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) (SFS ’66, LAW ’69) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act

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Uncancelled Concert 2020

To kick off the Fourth of July weekend this year, the Dream Project imagined our ever-popular benefit concert within the confines of our new, digital world. Rather than cancel the event completely, we instead invited

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Reflection on the SCOTUS Decision on DACA

By Lizzette Arias, Executive Director, Dream Project and Victoria Gonzalez, Senior Intern, Dream Project Background of the Case In June 2012, President Barack Obama established DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). This executive order followed

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