OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE UTAH ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS

Pub. 12 2022-2023 Issue 1

Charter School Graduate Profile

Carina Linares is a 2020 graduate of InTech Collegiate Academy and just recently (May 2022) graduated from USU.

At USU, Linares was an undergraduate research fellow majoring in sociology with minors in intersectional gender studies and sexuality studies. Her research projects spanned multiple areas including: the environmental impact of immigration in the United States; the interconnection of food insecurity and disability; and the construction of race, class, and gender in the Mexican American, Chinese American, and Native American school desegregation cases that came before Brown v. Board of Education.

For her research and academic success at USU, Linares was named both an undergraduate research scholar and sociology student of the year in 2022, as well as the Valedictorian of the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. She is currently applying for graduate school with plans for a joint JD/PHD in Sociology.

Speaking of her experience at InTech, Linares credited InTech’s small class sizes, being known by the teachers, and the school’s early college program (from which she earned 45+ college credits) as key components of preparing her for college success:

“The quality of the teachers and the coursework at InTech … and having teachers that pushed you to excel made all the difference. When I did go to college, it was an easy transition to be able to perform at that level. InTech gives you the skill that you are going to need for college.”