Ulises Trujillo Garcia

Graduate student Ulises Trujillo Garcia is pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education Systems and Design at Arizona State University. Ulises held a number of leadership positions during his undergraduate career, which earned him a variety of accolades. These experiences helped him identify his passion which is rooted in helping Latinx students with migrant farm working backgrounds in higher education, especially in engineering spaces. Ulises is a fellow for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and is currently working on a project titled "Empowering Children of Migratory/Seasonal Farmworkers with Gamification and Culturally-Responsive Engineering Design Instruction." In the summer of 2021, Ulises started a scholarship for migrant students in Eastern Oregon to pursue higher education and a year later, provided $6,000 in scholarships for this population. As a first-generation, low-income Latino from a farm working family, Ulises is passionate about helping his community and devotes his time to diverse educational and leadership causes.