Michael Oshiro is a 4th year PhD student in a joint program in special education between CSULA and UCLA. He was a secondary special education teacher, and spent much of his time teaching and advocating for foster and incarcerated youth, which is what most of his research centers on. He is also currently a project director for the Incarcerated Youth Tutorial Project (IYTP), which is a CPOSA service project that tutors and mentors young men of color at an LA probation camp.
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On Oct. 25, the UCLA chapter of Young Americans for Liberty held a bake sale on Bruin Walk that was a satirical and critical stance on the policy of affirmative action in admission decisions. The premise of the bake sale was to equate prices for Diddy Riese cookies to the apparent benefit that affirmative action…