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LUNA Tutoring Graduation

Monday, May 19 , the girls in LUNA who participated in a 10-week long academic-based mentoring program celebrated their graduation in style! We had a wonderful feast with mentors, families, and friends, all topped off with a competitive game of family jeopardy. The girls were thrilled to receive their diplomas and to give their tutors small gifts. They were even more excited when Radio VJ JR from the Radio El Zol 99.1 sent a special message out over the airwaves congratulating the girls on a job well done. Many felicidades to our wonderful and dedicated LUNA girls.

LUNA Academic Mentoring Graduates:
Rosa Pacheco
Emily Escobar
Marisela Garcia
Ozzely Jex
Emma Alvarez

LUNA Mentors:
Elizabeth Droggitis
Erica Chavez
Hana Kim
Anny Chuquicondor
Curllyne Ndong
Lisa Thomas

LUNA Tutoring Graduation Program

LUNA Highlights
  • Lunitas at Eastern Middle School have put their pens to paper as teen journalists for the E-Zine Latinitas. The girls selected, researched, and wrote on topics from teenage relationships to immigration raids.


  • Silver Spring International LUNA girls have prepared personal poems and "Sheroe" fact posters about heroic Latina women in the US and Latin America that they will present on International Women's Day.


  • White Oak Middle School's LUNA group became photographers, videographers, and sound specialists at the Corcoran School of Art. They helped Salvadoran photographer, Muriel Hasburn, install and create audio photographic and video components of the FotoViajeros project. The FotoViajeros project explores Central American transnational identity and culture.


  • Takoma Park and Montgomery Blair girls have come together to produce a short documentary in correspondence with the Human Rights Watch youth-produced documentary competition. The girls have chosen the topic of family-based violence in the Latino community, as the core of their film.


    • Jump Start Girls On Ice
    Jump Start Girls from Takoma Park Middle School went on their first field trip earlier this month to Cabin John Ice Rink. Only one of our seven girls knew how to skate, so everyone started off a little bit shaky when we first hit the ice. While they started off grabbing onto the wall for dear life and falling “gracefully”, all of our Jump Start Girls were off the wall and skating by the end of the trip. With team work and laughter, our girls made fitness…fabulous!


    Recent Jump Start Girls Elementary Field Trips
    • Ice Skating at Cabin John Ice Rink in Rockville