Year: 4th year
Major: Biology
Minor: Health studies
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA and Salem, OR
Advice or Tips for any L&C students: Don’t be afraid to try new things or do something alone! This is often how you find new friends or discover something you love, you just got to get over the fear of trying something new. :)
Involvements on Campus: At the moment I am co-chair of Gente Latina Unida leadership team where our main focus is to make the Latine community of LC feel like we belong here. We are able to do this with things like chisme nights where we talk over dinner and dances where the community is able to listen to music in Spanish to feel a little bit more at home.
I am also a part of the SACNAS leadership team, which is a society for the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Stem fields. Our focus is to support the BIPOC community of Lewis & Clark to succeed in their chosen STEM field, both academically and emotionally. The BIPOC community already has such a difficult time at a PWI, but it’s even harder trying to succeed in fields that are historically made up of white men.
I am also a first-generation college student! I volunteer in the Capitol Hill Elementary School mentorship program and am an incoming senator, mariachi club, and teacher pathways!