Humanities students take D.C. trip to advocate for funding

Hannia Arevalo '27 was nervous when she walked into the Washington, D.C. office of Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas), her representative in Congress March 10. Arevalo was there along with other students from Cornell's Humanities Scholars Program and Society for the Humanities to advocate on behalf of humanities programs and initiatives.

But she was glad to see that several of the staffers in the office were from her hometown of McAllen, Texas and she focused on telling her story, impressing on them the importance of humanities to her studies and encouraging De La Cruz to support funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Archives. She also encouraged the office to sign on to the Congressional Humanities Caucus.

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