Puente Events
Puente students participate in a variety of fun and rewarding activities through the year, including
- University campus visits
- Visiting speakers
- Community service projects
- Family celebrations
- End-of-year celebration
- Graduation activities
Mentor Night
Author Event with Reyna Grande
End of Year Celebration
Noche de Familia
Motivational Conference
UCLA Campus Visit
CSU Long Beach Campus Visit
UC Davis Campus Visit
UC Davis Campus Visit
Tommy Orange Author Event
Author Tommy Orange joined an online session with a Puente class on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, from 1:30-2:30 p.m., to talk about his award-winning novel, "There There" and his life experiences.
Orange was one of three featured authors in this year's Silicon Valley Reads community reading campaign. His novel, “There There,” follows a dozen characters from Native American communities, exploring their interconnected experiences and heritage as they travel to the Big Oakland Powwow. The novel was a 2019 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
Orange graduated from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California.
(Photo credit: Elena Seibert)