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Nancy Alcala 1247 S, Hickory St. Santa Ana, CA 92707 1(714) 429 -6973 1 alcala.nan(q gmail.com May 19, 2015 Dear Grant Council: I wish to be considered for the approval of the Artist's Santa Ana Arts and Culture Grant, Since April 2014, wanting to create a positive impact in my community, I have used my creative knowledge and experience with arts, crafts, gardening, and team building activities to focus on empowering and bringing life- enhancing experiences to Santa Ana's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. I believe in including Santa Ana's underprivileged and disadvantaged communities in arts and culture as a way to enhance and invest in the lives of all members of society. Raised in the center of Santa Ana, at the age of 22, I have nearly 10 years' experience volunteering alongside Santa Ana's organizations and serving as a mentor for Santa Ana youth. In 2013, I graduated with a degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences and another in Sociology from Santa Ana College. I will be gradating this fall with a Ba'chelor's in Sociology with an emphasis on Interaction and Group Relations from California State University Long Beach. Living in a poor migrant household and community looking for opportunities to enhance my childhood, I sought to my community for resources offering an classes in my neighborhood, but was unsuccessful. Luckily, as a student at Sierra Intermediate, at the age of twelve, I enrolled in an all class and volunteered after school by cleaning the art class room in exchange for extra art lessons. It was there where my art teacher taught me a broad range of mediums, their uses, and techniques including: painting, drawing, sculpting, hand- building, calligraphy, paper maMcing, and cast forming among others. The years following when this opportunity no longer became available, I read books on arts education and practiced at home.