YWCR AWARD WINNERS
April 2024
Olivia Jackson
Cypress High School
$1,000
CONGRATULATIONS
THANK YOU TO ALL YWCR ESSAY PARTICIPANTS!
April 2024
Ashley Seow
Henry M. Gunn High School
$1,000
YOUNG WOMEN OF COLOR READ ESSAY CONTEST INFORMATION
ABOUT YOUNG WOMEN OF COLOR READ
Eligible Participants
Annual Essay Contest
Eligible Participants: The Young Women of Color Read annual essay contest is open to 12th grade women students who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color (BIPOC) and are enrolled in high schools in California.
YWCR Winners’ Financial Awards
Two winners will receive a financial award of $1,000 each.
Contest Deadline
The deadline is 12 noon, PST, March 31st. No late entries will be accepted.
YWCR Contest Essay Writing Prompt
Describe how your fiction or nonfiction book changed your views/perspectives or made you think differently about an issue.
Contest Criteria
♦ A BIPOC 12th grade woman student currently enrolled in a high school in California.
♦ Submission of a typed essay and a photo of you reading your selected book.
Entrant’s Essay Requirements
♦ Answer the writing prompt. Include evidence from the text to support your perspectives and analyses.
♦ Include a brief summary of the book’s plot.
♦ The essay must be typed, double-spaced, 1 ½ pages minimum, and 2 pages maximum.
♦ At the top of the essay type your name, cell #, complete mailing address, and your school’s name.
♦ Submit a photo of you reading your selected book.
Submit your essay and photo to youngwomenofcolorread@gmail.com
Young Women of Color’s Winners and Awards
♦ The Consent Form must be signed by a parent and/or guardian and a 12th grade teacher or counselor of your choice.
♦ All winners will be notified by April 30th.
♦ Winners will receive their financial awards in May.
♦ Winners’ photos will be posted on the Young Women of Color Read (YWCR) website in May.
ABOUT TCS and TIA CHUCHA’S CENTRO CULTURAL & BOOKSTORE
Tate’s Consultant Services (TCS), LLC
Beverly Tate founded Tate’s Consultant Services, (TCS), LLC in June 2015 to provide young people of color, who are living in underserved communities, with academic tools and strategies that will help them succeed in school. TCS has four main programs: Stay College Connected Academic Workshops; the Black and Latino Men Read annual essay contest; Young Women of Color Read annual essay contest, and book donations to under-resourced schools and organizations.
Tate’s Consultant Services, LLC, www.mytcs.net
Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore
Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore was founded in 2003
by noted Chicano author and activist, Luis J. Rodriguez, his
wife, Trini Rodriguez, Angelica Loa, and Victor Mendoza of El
Vuh. Rooted in high needs communities, the mission of Tia
Chucha’s Centro Cultural is to transform community in the
Northeast San Fernando Valley and beyond through ancestral
knowledge, the arts, culture, literacy, and creative
engagement.Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore, www.tiachucha.org
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