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The State Hornet

The student news site of Sacramento State University

The State Hornet

Student news without fear or favor
Jasmine Ascencio

Jasmine Ascencio, DEI reporter

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Jasmine Ascencio is a first-generation Latina-American college student that joined the State Hornet in Spring 2023. Passionate about storytelling, she loves to find ways to tell stories that engage and advocate for social change. When she isn't working on a story, she is probably watching true-crime documentaries.
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Andrew Yang, Sac State’s first coordinator for the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Center, hanging out in the APIDA Center lounge in Lassen Hall on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. Yang aims to encourage students to join the APIDA Center and offer support services such as scholarships and internships.

‘We are the product of everyone who has supported us’

Meet Sac State’s first Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Center Coordinator
Jasmine Ascencio
March 15, 2023
Andrew Yang, a first-generation Hmong-American, is Sac State’s first APIDA Center Coordinator.
Fourth-year civil engineering major and President of National Society of Black Engineers Aissatou Fall speaking with attendees of Little Africa in front of the Library quad Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Event organizers said they hope for more support from the university in promoting similar events.

Little Africa: Rebuilding connection and success within the Black student body

Black student-led organizations host networking event during ‘Black History Month’
Jasmine Ascencio
February 17, 2023
Honoring a legacy and building connection within the Black student body, “Little Africa” re-emerges as a collaboration between Black student-led organizations to build unity and visibility.

[Video] State Hornet Broadcast: Sac State celebrates Lunar New Year and mourners remember Tyre Nichols at candlelit vigil

February 6, 2023
Welcome back to campus Sac State. Catch up with the APIDA Center’s Lunar New Year paint night, the opening of the ‘Cloth as Community’ gallery in the library and Tyre Nichols’ candlelit vigil in North Sacramento.
A group of models posed together in front of the “Cloth as Community” sign in the Library Gallery on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. The varied ensembles express Hmong culture through textiles.

Diaspora, resilience and common ground: Library Gallery celebrates Hmong culture in latest exhibit

‘Cloth as Community’ on display through May 19
Hailey Valdivia and Jasmine Ascencio
February 4, 2023
Project HMONG’s ‘Cloth as Community’ exhibit had its opening reception on Thursday at Sac State’s University Library Gallery. It showcases the Hmong community’s historical use of textiles to record stories and folklore.
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