{"id":1280,"date":"2019-11-21T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hasc.mysites.io\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2023-07-16T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T23:19:29","slug":"judith-jerwin-jeysner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scdreamers.org\/es\/judith-jerwin-jeysner\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrando una d\u00e9cada de Familia con Judith, Jerwin y Jeysner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Judith\u2019s son, Jerwin, played soccer at Carolina High, his entire team could hear if she was in the stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would yell, \u2018Go! Go!,\u2019 and I am screaming and screaming\u2026 and he scores! If I couldn\u2019t make a game, and they lost, the team would tell him, \u2018It\u2019s because your mom wasn\u2019t here,\u2019\u201d she laughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judith\u2019s relentless outpouring of motivation extends well beyond her sons\u2019 sports \u2013 it is a vital part of helping her family succeed as a single mother, and she understands the importance of surrounding them with many positive influences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An effective community acts as both a cheerleader and a coach – wrapping an encouraging arm around its neighbors, and addressing the needs of each generation. Hispanic Alliance has met needs and provided resources for Judith\u2019s family at critical points in their lives, reinforcing her mission to create a stable future and push her sons to become exemplary young men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After growing up in Colombia, Judith joined her family in Massachusetts in 1996, where she learned a painful fact: her high school diploma and four<\/em> technical certificates had no easy equivalency in the US. American employers valued diplomas over skills and experience, and this truth has stayed with Judith ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI fought very hard to try to get ahead,\u201d she remembers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After leaving an abusive relationship with her former husband, she moved to Greenville with her three sons, Eduardo, Jerwin, and Jeysner, heavily in debt. Through our Basic Financial Literacy classes, she learned how to avoid future credit card debt and met Hispanic financial professionals with a personal mission to equip families to succeed. She was connected with SC Legal Services, a member of the Hispanic Alliance network, which provided her with pro bono<\/em> bankruptcy assistance, allowing her to restart her finances independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judith was determined for her sons to be successful through understanding the education needed to progress in the United States. A key to her success is her reliance on community: a willingness to search for information and to ask for assistance, rather than struggling on her own:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou ask, \u2018How do I achieve what I want to achieve?\u2019 If you don\u2019t ask, you are always going to be seeking something your whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Jerwin joined the inaugural class of the Student DREAMers Alliance (SDA) as a Senior, Judith hoped that Hispanic Alliance could fill the gap in resources and mentorship that she alone could not provide. Jerwin thrived in SDA\u2019s unique leadership curriculum, surrounded by motivated peers, dedicated program staff, and a large web of allies in the world of education.. He is now in his third year at USC Upstate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStudent Dreamers Alliance gave me a push on my path in furthering my education and my dream to become a business data analyst,\u201d says Jerwin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was so excited taking him to college. It was my happiest moment ever!\u201d Judith beams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After witnessing his brother\u2019s experience, his younger brother Jeysner joined SDA Class 3, and graduated with multiple scholarship offers. He even followed his mom\u2019s footsteps, attending our Financial Stability Team\u2019s entrepreneur workshop seminar this Fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love it,\u201d Judith exclaims, \u201cbecause I want them to continue seeking help from professional people, and in turn, to help other <\/em>people. Without your help, I don\u2019t know that they would have achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los hijos de Judith fueron los primeros hermanos en completar SDA y son los primeros en su familia extendida en asistir a la universidad. Con una organizaci\u00f3n de apoyo a su espalda, Judith puede concentrarse en ense\u00f1arles lecciones de car\u00e1cter, que reflejan de cerca c\u00f3mo la Alianza Hispana ve nuestro papel en la comunidad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI taught them to love and support each other, and that all together, we will get ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Hispanic Alliance Celebrates a Decade of Familia, we want to honor Judith\u2019s family as a Hispanic Alliance family: one that is comfortable receiving and giving back in equal measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTengo una coraz\u00f3n de marshmallow*<\/em>,\u201d she admits smiling. \u201cWhen I try to help others, I give everything of myself, because you never know where you are going to be. Try forgetting about yourself a bit,\u201d she insists, \u201cand turn your heart it into a \u2018marshmallow heart!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When reflecting on the next ten years for her own sons, Judith states, \u201cI want them to fulfill their dreams and you have been part of them fulfilling their dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are cheering them on – almost <\/em>as loudly as Judith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Los hijos de Judith fueron los primeros hermanos en completar SDA y son los primeros en su familia extendida en asistir a la universidad. Con una organizaci\u00f3n de apoyo a su espalda, Judith puede concentrarse en ense\u00f1arles lecciones de car\u00e1cter, que reflejan de cerca c\u00f3mo la Alianza Hispana ve nuestro papel en la comunidad.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-celebratingfamilia","category-__sda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scdreamers.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scdreamers.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scdreamers.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scdreamers.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scdreamers.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scdreamers.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scdreamers.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scdreamers.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scdreamers.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scdreamers.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}