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Meet the Fellows

Our outstanding 2025 fellows came from all walks of life and many academic backgrounds. Through the Labor Summer Fellowship, they immersed themselves in the field of labor advocacy, gaining valuable hands-on experience helping workers to organize their workplaces.

In their own words:

  • Carmina Victoria Bosmenier

    Carmina Victoria Bosmenier

    Hi everyone! My name is Carmina Victoria Bosmenier, friends and family call me Tori. My pronouns are she/her/ella. I'm 23 years old, born in California, and raised in the Imperial Valley on Kumeyaay and Cocopah land. Soy de Puebla, Mexicali, Cuba, y Yaqui. I recently graduated from San Jose State University with a Master's in Liberal Studies and Bilingual Education and am currently finishing up my multiple-subject teaching credential. While at SJSU, I was an advocate in our multicultural centers and helped lead the student movement that successfully established the Native American Indigenous Student Success Center. I'm passionate about labor organizing efforts that center access to education, food, water, and land. I'm excited for the opportunity to be working with the UCSD Labor Center to support worker education and research on topics like lithium extraction and AI in the workplace, and to contribute to the efforts toward creating a Worker Resource Organizing Center in the Imperial Valley.
  • Kimberly Barrueta

    Kimberly Barrueta

    Kimberly Barrueta is a first-generation college graduate born and raised in northern San Diego County. Kimberly earned an associates degree in Chicano/a Studies from MiraCosta College and a bachelor's degree in Labor Studies with a minor in Community Engagement and Social Change from UCLA. She is passionate about educational justice, immigrant rights and worker justice particularly for marginalized communities.She is looking forward to working with UNITE HERE to gain hands-on experience helping workers to organize their workplaces.
  • Liz Ramirez

    Liz Ramirez

    I’m a sociology major at Imperial Valley College with a passion for helping people and building more equitable communities. That drive comes from personal experience and family roots—growing up around union members in the United Farm Workers and the Classified School Employees Association (CSEA) taught me the power of collective care and advocacy. On campus, I’ve worked as a student employee and participated in efforts to support students' basic needs. I was also part of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center’s “Thriving Youth” survey project, where I helped document and amplify youth voices in the Imperial Valley. Through a youth environmental health internship (YEHI) by Comite Civico del Valle, I had the chance to speak directly with a local congress member and a U.S. representative about environmental justice in frontline communities. Whether it’s through research, policy, or organizing, I’m committed to showing up for others—and this summer, I’m excited to keep growing through Labor Summer and continue fighting for the rights and dignity of workers and students like myself.
  • Elise Marino

    Elise Marino

    My name is Elise G. Marino. I will be graduating from UCSD this summer with a B.A. in English Literature. I consider myself a longtime student with academic experience in Art, Literature, Writing, Labor History, and Communication. I am a former AFT Student Representative, and I'm passionate about the protection of public and community spaces, education, and workers' rights. I am honored to be working alongside UFCW Local 135 this summer during this pivotal moment in labor.