{"id":276664,"date":"2019-05-21T15:13:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiQ2h0dHBzOi8vbmV3cy5iZXJrZWxleS5lZHUvMjAxOS8wNS8yMS9ncmFkdWF0aW5nLXNlbmlvci1sZWxpc2EtYmVyYS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:46:58","slug":"a-uc-berkeley-profile-followed-a-student-from-rural-ethiopian-farming-to-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276664","title":{"rendered":"A UC Berkeley profile followed a student from rural Ethiopian farming to graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 UC Berkeley news coverage followed a graduate whose path began in rural Ethiopian farming and ended with a university degree in California.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-263547\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Immigration-on-the-top-of-agenda-for-Australia-visit-of-Germany-President-730x486.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A UC Berkeley profile followed a student from rural Ethiopian farming to graduation\" \/>\n<p>The profile presented a familiar diaspora education arc: family sacrifice, student visas, low-wage work beside classes, and a public ceremony that turned a private climb into a campus story.<\/p>\n<p>Such pieces matter less as celebrity and more as a record of how Ethiopian families used U.S. public universities as one of the few reliable mobility ladders when local higher education and jobs stayed tight.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as lifestyle and diaspora education archive, the Berkeley graduation file pairs with other 2019 Horn migration stories about who could leave and who stayed behind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/\">UC Berkeley News (draft syndication)<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From farming in rural Ethiopia to graduating from UC Berkeley&nbsp;&nbsp;UC BerkeleyGrowing up in rural Ethiopia, Lelisa Bera knew that getting an education wasn&#8217;t a given. It was a privilege that many parents couldn&#8217;t afford to give their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":263547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Immigration-on-the-top-of-agenda-for-Australia-visit-of-Germany-President-730x486.jpg?fit=730%2C486&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Yk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754855,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276664\/revisions\/754855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}