# @nauflagstaff on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CT0kHbgpsZy
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13225139-nauflagstaff-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-09-14T23:58:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Northern Arizona University (@nauflagstaff) — https://gondola.cc/nauflagstaff

## Caption

#LumberjackSpotlight Meet Maylee Acosta, ASNAU President. ⁠⁠⁠🪓🌲 🇲🇽
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"I would like to share that I am a first-generation Mexican woman whose parents migrated from Mexico when they were in their teens.⁠⁠ 
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To remind myself (because sometimes I get lost in my own little world), I carry a picture of my grandma (who had shared her dream about becoming a nurse but had to drop out in the fourth grade to help her mom at home) and a picture of a trip I took to Mexico to visit family (many of whom tried to pay for my dinner even though they were struggling to feed themselves). It’s truly insane to think about how many people in the world are struggling, so I make sure to be grateful that I am not."⁠⁠

(📸: maylee_acosta )
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#NAU #Lumberjacks #NorthernArizonaUniversity #LatinX #Latina #Hispanic #ASNAU #Latina #Chicana #Latino #Chicano #NAU #MyNAUview

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chicana, latino, northernarizonauniversity, asnau, chicano, mynauview, latina, latinx, hispanic, nau, lumberjackspotlight, lumberjacks

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