… Three East Los Angeles College (ELAC) Honors students presented at the 23 rd annual University of California Irvine (UCI) Community College Honors Research Conference on March 26 th . These students applied last fall with their research projects … to this topic from personal experience as she is a first-generation Mexican American. Perla’s research project was titled “Community Engagement & Belonging: A Minority Within Minorities” and it examined how many students who are Latino/a but not Mexican can feel excluded at ELAC. She was inspired by her Chicano/a Studies class which helped her to want …