Sunshine Maria Anderson transferred into UCLA after completing an AA degree from East Los Angeles College in 2009. She began UCLA immediately that summer with the Transfer Summer Program (TSP) sponsored by the Academic Advancement Program (AAP). Currently Sunshine is a senior majoring in Chicana and Chicano Studies and Art History and will be graduating this Spring of 2011. She has had the opportunity to participate in research gratefully with the support of the Under-graduate Research Center (URC) as an Undergraduate Research Fellow and continued with the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (URSP), she presented at the “International Conference on the Life and Work of Gloria Anzaldua” in 2010. In addition she is working toward completing a departmental honors thesis in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department. Sunshine is a third generation native to Los Angeles and first generation college student. While in community college she was a Getty Multicultural Undergraduate intern at The Junior Arts Center. She considers herself a non-traditional student who manages to balance being a mother of two children ages 9 and 5 while attending school full-time and working part-time at the Fowler Museum. She is also a Blue and Gold Scholar, has volunteered with the Bruin Resource Center, is part of the Parenting Students organization and former Co-Vice President, and a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. Her interests are primarily in the arts, specifically as a tool for transformation, healing and empowerment within underserved comm-unities. She would like to continue her education and earn an MFA in Photography. She hopes to one day open a Mexican American Museum of Art in Los Angeles that focuses on the varied experiences, expressions and history of the many generations that exist in Los Angeles.