Posted on 11/16/2007 3:48:47 PM PST by Red Badger
Maria Parra-Sandoval was born on June 25, 1985 in Nayarit, Mexico. She has lived in
Las Vegas, Nevada for thirteen years and has attended the valley’s public schools. She
graduated from the prestigious International Baccalaureate Program at Valley High School.
Maria’s leadership experiences have been primarily gained in service projects. She has
been a recruiter, mentor and facilitator for the Annual Latino Youth Leadership Conference.
She volunteered in the America Reads Program and helped establish Kappa Delta Chi
Sorority Inc., the first Latina community-service based sorority in Nevada. She has held
several leadership positions within this organization. Maria has also received a Leadership
Scholarship from the UNLV Student Government.
Maria has experience in the political field as well. In high school, she was active in
voter registration, volunteered in a congressional campaign, and interned for Clark County.
In college, she was selected to attend the Fifth Annual Public Policy and Leadership
Conference at Harvard. She is also a Fellow of the National Latina Leadership Institute
Summer Program in Washington, D.C. and was selected to intern in the office of the
Honorable Harry Reid in Spring 2006.
Maria is a dedicated community leader and has come to understand that part of her
role in higher education is to lift others. She believes it is a social responsibility of educated
adults, involved community leaders, and professionals to give back to their community.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/11/recycling_at_the_dem_debate.html
November 16, 2007
Recycling at the Dem debate
Clarice Feldman
Democrats apparently attempted to burnish their green credentials last night at the debate by recycling questioners:
Catherine Jackson, there with her son Chris, said her son has served three tours as a soldier in Iraq. She’s worried about the U.S. going to war in Iran and her son being called to serve there as well. What will the candidates do to prevent a war with Iran?
Dan Riehl asks:
Now when have I heard that before? How about in May. Thank you Harry Reid.
“My son was in Iraq three times,” said Catherine Jackson of Las Vegas. “I thank God he’s home now. Enough is enough. We need to bring our troops home.”
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/11/talk-about-plan.html
I remember a presidential debate moderated by Ted Koppel where he said if you ask something other than what you've already been cleared to ask, your microphone will be cut off. He also chided the audience to not boo answers from candidates they don't support.
Wait until the presidential debates next year. I'm sure the audience will be packed with $80 apiece Hillary supporters and every kook audience member will be given a chance to verbally berate the republican candidate.
These "open minded" students don't care. They are willing tools.
OK. She got to say the words “Diamonds or Pearls”.
Did she get to ask any of the 5 questions she submitted?
Did Bill say “hey, that’s my line!” ?
I think that to even consider it ‘live’ begs the imagination.
Sadly, she’ll always be remembered for asking a TWIT question....dumb chick.....she should have said “CNN TOLD me to ask you, Hillary this set-up question”.
I would have liked her to have made this slight change to the question......
“Hillary, when Bill cheats on you do you prefer Diamond or Pearls?”
Maria just showed how FEMALES can be so easily manipulated.
But is she an American citizen?
If they are going to use pre-planned questions, they should have better pre-planned answers.
Dem Idiots
Honors College Student Strives to Create Positive Change
Maria Parra-Sandoval didn’t take it lightly when her mother told her at the age of six that she and her family were leaving their small Mexican village to live in the most powerful and privileged country in the world.
“I knew it must be very important,” she recalls, remembering their month-long journey across the Mexican-American border.
She understood quickly that to succeed in this country as an immigrant wouldn’t come easy. So, in third grade she bought her first dictionary and resolved to learn English.
“It was hard adjusting to a second language,” said Parra-Sandoval. “I knew that I would have to work twice as hard.”
She took that lesson to heart and is still working twice as hard – at everything she does.
Along with her siblings, she was the first in her family to get a high school diploma, graduating third in her class at Valley High School with a 4.6 GPA.
Her success in high-school paved the way for several private and public college scholarships sending her off to UNLV as a student in the privileged Honors College. Today, she is one of about 700 students who participate in this prestigious program and is one of the 1,700 students who rely on private scholarship support from UNLV each year.
“Scholarships provide financial relief to students who need it – if they apply they have decided that they can do it,” she said.
In February 2005, Parra-Sandoval was one of 50 students selected nationally to attend the Public Policy and Leadership Conference at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. This spring, she will serve as the political communications intern for Sen. Harry Reid in our nation’s capitol.
Her drive and dedication to succeed for herself and for her family is matched by her strong desire to create positive change through community service.
“A cause is fought in a way that you show others through actions,” she says.
And so, staying true to her word, Parra-Sandoval helped establish Kappa Delta Chi, the first Latina Sorority in the state of Nevada whose main emphasis is to help the local Latina community.
Parra-Sandoval is an immigrant on a lifelong quest to become a U.S. citizen, a dream that will soon become a reality. Although the process has been a long one, the experience has piqued her interest in our country’s legal system and influenced her career choice.
Dreams beyond UNLV include both a law degree and a master’s in public policy from Harvard so that she can someday practice immigration law.
“My parents have always said that I am the American dream, but I believe that above that, I am their dream come true.”
I see. So, its entirely possible she, as an illegal immigrant, was chosen for a scholarship over a worthy American citizen? Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for the American dream. But shouldn’t American citizens be chosen first?
That’s great!
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