Lecturer Felipe Lopez has a doctorate in urban planning from UCLA, but his UCLA office is in the indigenous languages of the Americas program.
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Spoken around the World: Yoruba
The city of Ibadan is at once Nigeria’s traditional Yoruba center and home to the country’s first skyscraper, first sports stadium, first television station and first university.
Mixed: A Mixed Heritage
America has always been considered a melting pot ““ a melting pot of ideas, of ethnicities, of religions, of experiences and of people.
Peace Corps: more than helping hands
Spending 27 months in a developing country, oftentimes living in dismal conditions without electricity or running water is quite a big commitment.
Peace Corps: Megan Kelly
After finishing her undergraduate degree, Megan Kelly wasn’t entirely sure what she wanted to do with her life, but she did know one thing for certain ““ she wanted to help people.
Peace Corps: Phu Tranchi
When UCLA alumnus Phu Tranchi first found out his Peace Corps assignment, he wasn’t even sure where the country was located.
“When I first received my package that said I was going to Kenya, the first thing I had to do was pull out an atlas to figure out where the heck Kenya was,” Tranchi said.
Peace Corps: Stephen Bingcang
Fourth-year anthropology student Stephen Bingcang is no stranger to traveling abroad.