Congratulations to Josee, our Class of 2019 recipient of a Friends of CRLS First Scholars Award! Josee is enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston to study criminal justice: “Being the first in my family to embark on a four-year college education means a lot to me and to my family. Also, I am grateful for being the first, because I can show a good example to my little cousins so that they will be interested to go to college like me. They can also use me as a resource to help them with school work and life’s situations. I hope that one day I will become a detective and come to help people who don’t have a voice within society, especially people of color. My goal is to do outreach and teach people about how the criminal justice system works. Through workshops, I also want to teach them when and how to claim their basic human rights.”