Episode 8 – Planting Seeds – First Generation Students in Agriculture

Bre Holbert

pronouns: she/her

Bre is a First Generation college student from Lodi, CA. She currently serves as the CSU, Chico Associated Students President and was recently awarded the CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement Trustee Emeritus Ali C. Razi Scholar. She attends California State University of Chico where she plans to pursue a career as a high school Agricultural Educator. Her goal is to teach in an urban/inter-city setting to shed light on the agriculture industry to students in ethnic minority identifying communities and aid them in reclaiming their stories in Agriculture. 

Celina Phillips 

Celina is a professor in Agriculture and serves as the Program Lead for the Animal Science program. She has a passion for inclusivity in teaching and supporting Chico State’s first-generation students. 

Garrett Liles 

Garret is excited to share that he is a Chico local, Chico State Alumni, and first-gen student. He has a goal to share his passion for Soils to all and have fun doing it. ‘Unconventional’ but I ask you to define convention and when that became the right way of doing things…