Student Profiles

Elvia Bustos Acevedo
was born in Santiago Collantes, in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico in 1986, where she grew up with one brother and four sisters. Elvia is the oldest child. She lived with both parents until the age of four and then lived for two years with her extended family after her parents separated. She moved back in with her mother at the age of six and lived...
Ruth Romero
was born in the Capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo in May of 1988. She and her two brothers; Alexander and Emmanuel, were raised by her mother and her step-father in a quiet part of the City. Ruth grew up believing that she would become a scientist, because she was passionate about discovering new things. Ruth began her...
Herminio Torres
was born in East Harlem to a father who migrated to the United States from Mayaguez, Puerto Rico and a mother from Corleone, Sicily. He grew up in Queens. His parents worked hard to provide a middle-class lifestyle for Herminio and his siblings. Herminio always had a passion for science, but athletics consumed most of his time as a youth...
Oyamiwa Walker
was born and raised in "the City of Brotherly Love" Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Growing up, Oyamiwa dreamt of going to college to study dance, because as a child she had a natural gift for movement that she truly wanted to explore. However, before she had the chance to pursue her studies and a career in dance, she had her first child, Brand...
Latoya Speller
was born in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx in New York City. She attended Elementary school at PS 49, Elijah D Clark JHS 149 and went to high school at Grace Dodge. However, she was unable to complete high school due to circumstances beyond her control. She left school and would later peruse her General Education Diploma (GED)...
Lesny Suazo
was born in Tela Atlantida, Honduras in Central America. She attended school in her home country, where she only completed her education through the tenth grade. When Lesny arrived in the United States in 1986 she had plans of returning to school and getting her education, however she had to put her plans on hold, because she became...
George Alvarenga
was born a few short blocks from Hostos Community College at Lincoln Hospital and was raised and still lives on Dyckman Street in the Inwood section of Manhattan. George was raised by a mother from the Dominican Republic and a father from El Salvador and in his upbringing the diversity of his home revealed the contradictions, the inspired...
Michele Quintero Williams
was born in the Bronx, New York at Lincoln Hospital on March 7th, 1988 and has lived in this neighborhood for her entire life. Michele is in her last semester at Hostos Community College and will graduate in January of 2011. When Michele arrived at Hostos she chose to study Office Technology, but after a couple of semesters...
Adelyn Castro
was born in The Bronx, New York in 1985 to Dominican parents. She attended Christ the King school on the Grand Concourse for both elementary and middle school. When her father died in 1997, her mother moved her to the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx. After she graduated from Christ the King school, she attended Humanities Preparatory...
Melissa Diaz
was born in the Bronx, New York to Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father. She grew up in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx by Poe Park and attended several schools in the Bronx and Manhattan; including The Legacy School for Integrated Studies, before going to the Dominican Republic to study from 1997-2000. When she returned to...
Madelin Gutierrez
was born in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic and came to the United States in November of 1990 to reunite with family that was already living in the United States. Raised and educated by her parents in the South Bronx, Madelin found herself at the top of her class and excelling in all of the subjects that she chose to study. She was so...
Sandra May Flowers
was born in Nottingham, England and arrived on the shores of the United States in 1980. Over the course of her time in the States, Sandra May has worked as both an actress and as an activist. She is constantly working to improve the lives of others and when she finds a spare moment or two she explores her artistic side and acts, writes and...
German Santos
was born in New York City at St. Luke’s Hospital on April 20th, 1983. He grew up in Morningside Heights with his mother Altagracia and his twin brother, David. His mother had to go through many struggles in her life to make sure that she would be able to provide a decent home and an education for her two sons.
Andrei Stratulat
was born in Galati, Romania in 1985 and came to the United States to study as an International Student in 2004, when he moved to Minnesota to attend Concordia College. Andrei was not satisfied with his course of study at Concordia and he had a desire to move to New York City and attend the City College of New York to study Electrical...
Yissely Ortiz
was born in the beautiful tropics of the Dominican Republic in 1987. She came to the United States to be reunited with her father in 1992 and since then she has fallen in love with New York City and all of its unique qualities. She was raised in Manhattan and has a strong connection to the heart of the City that stems from her youthful experiences there...
Rudolf Mbadinga
was born in Libreville, Gabon on May 3rd, 1980 and grew up in a modest home with his parents and four siblings. Rudy attended grade school and high school in Gabon and then was sent by his parents to study English and Business Administration in Ghana, West Africa. He lived in Ghana from 2002-2005 and he served as the President of the...
Imane Elomari
was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1989 and she had the chance to travel around the world, while she was very young, with her parents who were United Nations Diplomats. Imane took great pleasure in visiting the places that she went to; the foods, the cultures, the languages and even the people, but in reflecting upon her past now, she...
Radhames Toribio
was born in the Dominican Republic on September 8th, 1994, in the City of San Francisco de Macoris. The Toribio family worked hard to prepare their children to become professionals in life and by making those efforts, they had to make hard decisions about where the family would settle and how they would raise their children. Radhames began his...
Crisne Lebron
was born in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic on February 18th, 1990 and after spending the first sixteen years of her life in her country she came to the United States with her mother and sister in 2008 to reunite with her father. While in the Dominican Republic, Crisne was selected to be a part of a special program called the United Nations...
Rosa Elena Calleja Gomez
was born on May 6th, 1978 in Mexico in the city of Izucar de Matamoros, Puebla. When she was a child her parents were divorced and she and her four siblings were separated into many houses. Rosa’s two eldest siblings went to live with her father and her three younger siblings stayed with her in their grandmother’s home, while Rosa’s mother

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