Financial Planning Workshop

Anya Ku

November 13, 2019

2019-20, Speaker

Maria Ku, a CPA and mom to one of our members, gave a presentation about financial planning for La Raza students and guests on fNovember 13, 2019. She spoke about how to manage student debt and finances for our financial wellbeing in the long term. About thirty students attended the event and greek food was served. We covered budgeting skills, making moves to boost your credit score, loan repayment options, the value of compound interest when saving, and different types of retirement plans, amongst other topics.

Native Land Acknowledgement

We take a moment to recognize that Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin) (Hoo-Choon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo (Cho-Chen-yo) speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma (Muh-wek-muh) Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.

We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has benefited, and continues to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land since the institution's founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university's relationship to Native peoples. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold the University of California, Berkeley more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.