“But it’s not as if I was in a worse position.
“When I say this to someone who hasn’t experienced it, they’re shocked,” she said. “There’s a disconnect between the people providing the resources and the people who need them.”Īs a child, Garcia helped her family fill out paperwork and seek community services – an experience to which many first-generation college students can relate. “There are resources but they’re not advertised,” she said. Growing up, Garcia was the go-to English speaker in her family. They moved from California to Iowa when she was a toddler so they could be closer to her mother’s family in Des Moines. This summer, she’s interning for the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence. “They showed us how those issues intersect with political science, and it’s exactly the work I want to do – with nonprofits, low-income communities and underrepresented populations,” she said. It was an introductory women’s and gender studies class during Garcia’s freshman year that solidified her decision to pursue law. Getting a head start in the 3+3 Program as a freshman meant she had a solid plan to finish her undergraduate work without having to cram courses at the last minute. Garcia will finish law school at Drake by the time she’s 23. The program is articulated through Iowa State’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and students receive their bachelor’s degrees after the first year of law school at either the University of Iowa or Drake. She found the 3+3 Program, which allows Iowa State students to earn an undergraduate degree and a law degree in six years rather than the usual seven. So, when she had to write a paper about career goals in her freshman political science course, she started researching different opportunities for pre-law students. Garcia, who majored in political science with a minor in women’s and gender studies at Iowa State, has known for years that she wanted to be a lawyer. Photo by Christopher Gannon.įirst-generation graduate Jacqueline Garcia is celebrating two milestones this month: She’ll receive her bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University and wrap up her first year of law school at Drake University in Des Moines. She’s also wrapping up her first year of law school at Drake University. The best moments from those concerts, including Lisa Hannigan's mesmerizing performance of Drake's song "Black Eyed Dog," appear on an upcoming collection called Way to Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake.Jacqueline Garcia is not only graduating from Iowa State University.
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So Boyd, who produced Nick Drake's first two records in the late '60s and early '70s, gathered together a dozen artists - including Robyn Hitchcock, Teddy Thompson and Vashti Bunyan - for a series of concerts in the U.K., Australia and Italy to celebrate Drake's music.
"In my opinion, the only way to make a tribute record work is to get everyone together in the same place so there's a unity of sound and spirit," he tells us in an email.
But he finally decided to make one when Boyd realized that the recordings could be captured in a live concert. Veteran producer Joe Boyd says he'd long resisted putting together some sort of tribute album for his late friend, the legendary folksinger Nick Drake. Lisa Hannigan performs in one of several live concerts for a new tribute album, Way to Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake.
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