UC Berkeley students

UC Berkeley students & BSP scholarship recipients

UC Berkeley students, Alejandra Zamora and Yazmin Venegas joined Building Skills Partnership at the 2023 Mike Garcia Scholarship gala! Both women are the children of SEIU-USWW property service workers. 

Alejandra Zamora graduated from UC Berkeley in 2022 with a degree in Political Science. A four-time recipient of  Building Skills Partnership’s Mike Garcia Scholarship, she is working on her J.D. at UC Berkeley Law.

Yazmin Venegas is currently a sophomore at UC Berkeley, majoring in Political Science. She is the first recipient of the Martha Cox-Nitikman Memorial Scholarship, named after BSP’s late Board Member, who was focused on providing educational opportunities to deserving students.

The scholarships help the children of property service workers achieve their dreams of higher education.