Hello Everyone!
My name is Frankie Candia and I am currently working on my last semester at Glendale Community College and will be graduating with my Associates in Elementary Education. I plan to continue my education in the fall through the NAU Extended Campus Program and will be teaching my own class in Fall of 2016 (which is just in time for my 10 year high school reunion).
I am an active student leader on campus and currently I am the President of the M.E.Ch.A. Organization. We are an organization that promotes the importance of higher education among our Latino Community, equal rights for all minorities and we focus on community service/outreach. We are well known district wide for the many truly original events we have brought to our GCC campus and we plan to continue to inspire other clubs to do the same. Currently, we are working on the biggest project of our M.E.Ch.A. "Careers"! We will facilitate the first Student-run-for-Student Youth Conference in April 2014. This conference will be ran by our very own Mechistas where we are hosting 60 local high school juniors and seniors for a full day of five workshops focusing on Communication, Leadership, Team-Building, Education, and Cultural Diversity, free food and Cultura.
On top of being a full-time student with 18 credits on this semester's schedule and the President of M.E.Ch.A. (which is a full-time job on its own), I am also a student employee of the English Dept. Working on campus is great opportunity and allows me to focus more on my studies instead of taking the time to travel to an off-campus job.
When I am not focusing on my studies or being a student leader, I am a wife and an artist. My husband and I celebrated our third anniversary this past Christmas at Disneyland. Although, we both have very busy schedules and do not spend as much time together as we would like to, we understand these are small sacrifices we have to make now in order to have the life we want for our future.
I take great pride in being an artist! I love to paint with acrylics on discarded vinyl records that I purchase by the cart full from Goodwill. I choose to paint on vinyl records because they are a unique medium and a good conversational piece. Most of my art is about Latino culture and focuses more on Dia de Los Muertos (one of my favorite holidays). I have yet to sell one of my pieces, but I have donated one to be sold at an art auction for the PTK scholarship fund.
I also have my largest art piece hanging in the Student Leadership Office. The "Dreamer" is a piece constructed of thirty vinyls records and took twenty-six hours to complete.
I am super excited to start this new adventure in blogging! I want to take a minute and invite anyone who is interested in joining M.E.Ch.A. to stop by at one of our meetings on Thursdays at 1pm in room 05-142 or at our table during the Club Fair Feb. 4 & 5 from 9am-1pm in the Student Union (don't worry, you do not need to be Latino/Hispanic or even speak spanish to join our group, everyone is welcome!).
See ya'll later!
My name is Frankie Candia and I am currently working on my last semester at Glendale Community College and will be graduating with my Associates in Elementary Education. I plan to continue my education in the fall through the NAU Extended Campus Program and will be teaching my own class in Fall of 2016 (which is just in time for my 10 year high school reunion).
I am an active student leader on campus and currently I am the President of the M.E.Ch.A. Organization. We are an organization that promotes the importance of higher education among our Latino Community, equal rights for all minorities and we focus on community service/outreach. We are well known district wide for the many truly original events we have brought to our GCC campus and we plan to continue to inspire other clubs to do the same. Currently, we are working on the biggest project of our M.E.Ch.A. "Careers"! We will facilitate the first Student-run-for-Student Youth Conference in April 2014. This conference will be ran by our very own Mechistas where we are hosting 60 local high school juniors and seniors for a full day of five workshops focusing on Communication, Leadership, Team-Building, Education, and Cultural Diversity, free food and Cultura.
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| "Creating a Path for Better Mechistas, Better Leaders" M.E.Ch.A. Retreat Nov. 2013 |
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| Disneyland Christmas 2013 |
I take great pride in being an artist! I love to paint with acrylics on discarded vinyl records that I purchase by the cart full from Goodwill. I choose to paint on vinyl records because they are a unique medium and a good conversational piece. Most of my art is about Latino culture and focuses more on Dia de Los Muertos (one of my favorite holidays). I have yet to sell one of my pieces, but I have donated one to be sold at an art auction for the PTK scholarship fund.
I also have my largest art piece hanging in the Student Leadership Office. The "Dreamer" is a piece constructed of thirty vinyls records and took twenty-six hours to complete.
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| "Dreamer" Spring 2013 |
It is the story of the thousands of immigrants who travel by foot through the Sonoran Desert every year.
The journey of rough terrain, hot days, no food, little water, and only the clothes on their back.
It's a story of the discrimination of our people, with skin the color of earth, as they labored in the fields to supply this country with it's harvest.
This is the story of the political battle as we line the streets and demand justice for everyone.
It's the story of the right to walk the halls freely and pursue an education.
This is the story of the educated pushing the door open for his people.
This is the story of every ones dream, a dream of life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I am super excited to start this new adventure in blogging! I want to take a minute and invite anyone who is interested in joining M.E.Ch.A. to stop by at one of our meetings on Thursdays at 1pm in room 05-142 or at our table during the Club Fair Feb. 4 & 5 from 9am-1pm in the Student Union (don't worry, you do not need to be Latino/Hispanic or even speak spanish to join our group, everyone is welcome!).
See ya'll later!
