# @usfca on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CGk-x5hAdPo
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73300113-usfca-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-10-20T19:55:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** University of San Francisco (@usfca) — https://gondola.cc/usfca

## Caption

Transit Justice: Isabel Tayag ’21 spent part of her internship with South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN) talking to MUNI users about their daily experiences and the burdens a proposed fare increase might bring. 🚎 

Then, at a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors meeting, Tayag was asked to share some of those stories. 

“I was shaking, but I pushed through. In fact, that moment really solidified my dream of becoming a lawyer — there is power in words and there is power in speaking up for those who don’t have the privilege to attend an SFMTA board meeting at the top of the Uber building at 2 o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon.” 🗣

Students in Rachel Beth Egenhoefer’s Design Activism class, which works with nonprofits every semester, created posters and images to help promote the transit justice campaign. 🎨💻

In the end, SOMCAN’s campaign helped to make a difference. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to freeze MUNI fare increases for two years. 🙌

Tayag connected with SOMCAN through the Community Empowerment Activist program at the iammccarthycenter. Tayag liked her experience so much she’s signed on for another year as a community empowerment activist. This year she’s working with a violence prevention group in San Quentin State Prison and also co-teaching an activism class with McCarthy Center program manager Jackie Ramos. 🤝 

“USF has so much to offer. Apply to things, even if you don’t think you’ll get them. Put yourself out there.” - Isabel Tayag ‘21 

Read more at the link in bio. 🔗

#USFCA #ChangeTheWorldFromHere

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