'The Brown Girl Chronicles' - Being First Gen by The Ithacan published on 2019-02-20T17:22:11Z On this episode of "The Brown Girl Chronicles" Sobeida discusses what it is like to be a first-generation college student and how people define who is "first gen". Sobeida's two guests Leticia Lynch and Alisha Tamarchenko are Ithaca College students who share their relationship to identifying as a first-generation college student and challenges they've faced.