Keymara was born and raised in Long Beach, the oldest of seven siblings in a home led by a single father. From a young age, Keymara learned to care for others before herself. But it wasn’t until she faced her own deep mental and emotional struggles that she truly...
Gina, a resident of National CORE’s Mission Cove affordable housing community, is graduating from the University of San Diego with a bachelor’s in human biology and global health – debt free. “At a very young age, I knew I wanted to go to into medicine,” she said. “I...
Saige, 17, believes that video games are the answer to so many of society’s most daunting problems – that they are not just entertainment, but the latest and most important frontier where our world will learn to discard its prejudices. And she wants to create video...
For Jennie, pursuing a career in automotive engineering isn’t just about building machines, it’s about rebuilding the future she once thought was out of reach. Now 24, Jennie is a full-time student at Citrus College and works full time as a service writer at an auto...
When Sebastian’s family fled Venezuela’s economic collapse five years ago, they left behind not just jobs and belongings, but also a sense of stability. His mother had been a journalism professor and his father a university law professor and judge. But as the...
In 2021, Taneshia found herself at her lowest point: She was jobless and cycling in and out of homeless shelters with her three children when a spine injury left her temporarily paralyzed and unable to speak. Where others may have broken, Taneshia says the experience...
