“First-gen students have to overcome different obstacles to sit in the [classroom] chairs that we do. And if you don’t invite those kind of discussions, that won’t be known.” So says Gael Figueroa Enriquez, one of three Mexican American high school students featured in the powerful documentary First Voice Generation, which documents the various obstacles—racial, cultural, financial—that first-gen students encounter as they navigate the path to college. Both Figueroa Enriquez and filmmaker Cynthia Martinez were on hand for a screening of the film as part of su_firstgenedeq’s First-Gen Week celebrations, which this year honors the federal TRIO programs, founded 60 years ago to help prepare income-eligible, first-generation, and under-represented students with their transition into college and graduate school. “Let me tell you, TRIO works,” Martinez, herself a TRIO graduate, told audience members in a panel discussion moderated by Suffolk students Areta Odiah and Victor Cruz-Castro. “It...