Written by: Emely Gonzalez 🇸🇻 Headshot of Jeffrey Sorto. (Emelyn Gomez) Jeffrey Sorto takes his education to a new level of excellence, a form of activism. As a student majoring in communications and minoring in U.S. Latina/o studies, he has learned what it really means to be a Latino pursuing higher education. “It's more about the history of people like me, you know, Latino people living in the United States and their struggles,” Sorto said. “It gives me the context of why

Written by: Ashley Neyra 🇵🇪 Headshot of Ashley Cortez. (Emelyn Gomez) Many graduates often fear what comes next: where they will work or whether they want to continue their education. But for Ashley Cortez, her next goal was to undergo brain surgery. Cortez, a psychology major with a minor in public leadership, graduated in December 2025. She was born in Boston to Salvadoran parents and, at an early age, moved to Prince George's County. With ambition and determination to

Written by: Emely Gonzalez 🇸🇻 Headshot of Sofia Appolonio. (Emelyn Gomez) Sofia Appolonio believes that success is not defined by the outcome, but by the path she took after not limiting herself against the big challenges. Appolonio, a student majoring in journalism, knew from a young age how her pathway would start. During her earlier years, she used her classroom’s daily morning prayers to report about the morning’s news story. “I'm thinking about these children in Oklaho

Written by: Emely Gonzalez 🇸🇻 Headshot of Quinn Carmack. (Emelyn Gomez) “You've got to genuinely enjoy what you love": words that Quinn Carmack has heard throughout his life. As Carmack spent most of his childhood solving complex math problems, he believed he had found what he enjoyed most: math. “Every time I do math, there's like this nostalgic sense of me doing that,” he said. “My dad would sit there and we would do three hours of calculus every day… It wasn't just him t