Welcome to CLAS Connections, a minicast that spends a heartfelt five minutes with people from UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In each case, their special connection has had a profound and lasting impact on their lives.
Today we speak with alumna Nicole Sanclemente and student Geraldine Uribe. They met through the CLAS Women’s Leadership Collective, a program that pairs undergraduate women with alumni mentors. They say their shared background as first-generation Latinas led to a profound symbiotic connection that changed both of their lives. Here’s Geraldine and Nicole.
Nicole: I remember the first time we met over Zoom. It’s that weird like feeling where you’re just like, oh, I’m gonna love this person. I knew that it was just gonna become a sisterhood rather than just like this mentor mentee relationship.
Geraldine: Finally being able to see you in person. Being in the presence of somebody that you look up to is just really nice. And it’s crazy that she not only got someone that was able to be kind of what I want to do in my future, but someone that actually looks like me.
This article originally appeared in UConn Today. Click here to read the full article.
