Melissa Baca, Caregiving Task Force member and UW-La Crosse graduate was featured in the La Crosse Tribune on December 19, 2020, in a piece called “Single mom graduating from UW-L this weekend hopes to create a ripple from the support she received.”
Baca completed her degree in the UW-L Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department while also also “raising her three teenage daughters, working as a caregiver, moonlighting as an advocacy journalist and caring for her oldest daughter, who suffers from Type 1 diabetes.”
“Having her daughters see her getting her degree is monumental to Baca, and she knows the impact it will have, saying she’s been reading studies about how children whose mothers received higher education are more likely to go to college themselves.”
Read the full piece here.