Maria Gisella Ramirez
Si Se Puede GraduateGisella is a 23-year-old Mexican native raised in East L.A. She recently moved to Oakland to finish her BA at San Francisco State University. In her off time from school Gisella coordinates the Student Organizing and Leadership program, a joint project of East Oakland Community High School and the Youth Empowerment School.
Gisella participated in the 2006 class of YMC’s Si Se Puede Fellowship. Before the ink dried on her Si Se Puede diploma, Gisella made her mark on the media policy scene by testifying at an August 2006 FCC hearing in Los Angeles about the lack of community access, youth voice and substantive programming on local radio in the Bay Area. As a result of her fiery testimonial, she was invited to speak at a media reform conference in Hawaii, asked to conduct a youth media workshop for FUSION-LGBT People Of Color Film Festival in Los Angeles, and helped secure an October 2006 FCC hearing in Oakland.
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