I am a first year student attending Baruch College, City University of New York. I am majoring in Public Affairs and earn my Bachelor of Science in Public Affairs (BSPA) from the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs in June 2024. 

I chose this major because I understand the struggles growing up as a person of color in a working class and immigrant family. Struggling on a daily basis to have our needs met, living paycheck to paycheck, and witnessing this similar situation in my neighborhood around me (financial insecurity, lack of access to healthcare, lack of mental health resources) propels me to fight for change for folks that are under served. The experiences that myself and people like me, undocumented folks, people of color, immigrants, and many more people around me encounter a lot of barriers and difficulties navigating through daily life because of the way different institutions set up obstacles that impede us from being at our best potential.

I am an Empath, so it is in my nature to understand what others are going through, and noticing all of the things going around in the world, oppression that certain groups of people are facing merely because of their ethnicity, such as the or their race, or their religion makes me want to speak up and stand against injustice.

I also love to expand my knowledge about the world and the effects that different institutions (authoritative, ideological, etc) have on people in society.