What is your hometown? Santa Fe Springs

What colleges did you attend? Degrees earned? Rio Hondo College A.S.
UOP, B.S.
National University, M.S.

What motivated you to go to college? My children...

Describe your college experience as first-generation. It was lonely, confusing at times, and sometimes extremely difficult to navigate....

What unique challenges did you face? I started off as a single, teen mom from humble beginnings. A product of every systemic stereotype imaginable, lack of resources, guidance, and social isolation are just a few of the unique challenges I faced...

How did you overcome those challenges? with God's grace and perseverance...

What did you advise other first-generation students? Don't stop...even when you want to...even when you don't belong...even when you just can't do it anymore...push past every challenge, every obstacle, and every lonely corner because your degree is waiting for you just around the corner.