Norma Jaramillo graduated in the top 7% of her high school class in Lockhart, Texas. Still, she didn’t think she could go to college. “My family couldn’t afford it,” she said. But when her 12th grade culinary teacher, a UT Austin alum, encouraged her to pursue higher education, Jaramillo decided… read more
Spring 2021
Learning policy making
Junior Carrington Lee is passionate about social justice. This past fall, when she had to choose a research topic in professor Doug Smith’s social policy course, she decided to focus on the racial disparity in incarceration rates in Smith County. “As an African American woman, this is an important issue… read more
Patients with chronic conditions put off needed care
Working with countless disabled and homebound older adults, professor Namkee Choi sees many who live with no health insurance. After the onset of disability in their 50s, people could no longer work and lost their coverage. “Eligibility for Medicare and/or Medicaid is tough, and many did not have it for… read more
