001[Music] thank you so I've been surrounded by women my whole life a lot of cousins who are girls but the main main influence was my mother she instilled in me a lot of Love Like Love is the base for a lot of things that you do in life that's where you find your motivation your purpose and what you want to do that's where you find the reassurance she instilled in me love and how to persevere how to be very strong and she always gave me this unconditional support and it made me feel like I could do anything and I've I've gone on to do a lot of different things still doing a lot my aunt and my mom my aunt came here when she was in her early 20s she came with my with my
002uncle and her two small children she came from Bolivia she wanted a better life for herself and her family she wanted to be a dentist but couldn't afford to keep going to school so she moved to the United States she ended up you know working and learning English and she was able to start her own business she actually received an award from the Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce and you know she's inspired me just to work hard and she showed me what you can do if you work hard and have determination um I feel most proud of that I already like accomplished what I want to do um I came to stay alone to finish my master's degree in Business Administration and have a job at the CPC raising my kids because my kids are
003really good kids I mean not just being a single mom but coming from a very poor family going back to my grandmother everybody is it just seems like there's like a pattern throughout my generations and I just wanted to make sure that I was the one to break that I just want to make sure that I can motivate somebody if I end up motivate somebody with the work that I do then I've done a good job I am very proud to have um finish my education as an adult learner and you know being able now in my role to help families to help the community to help those moms like myself my mother and my grandmother to be able to see the potential that could be for their own children by sharing my story which
004had many many times as their their story so I've always had role models in my life my grandma my mom and I feel like a lot of people don't have that so I've always wanted to be that person for someone um because it helped me so much like my mom didn't really understand college or like what to do like how do we get there but like what happens next so to have that person really helped me and I always wanted to be like helping other people grow forward um the growth mindset it was been huge in my family um to always grow always get a new position you know do something better for yourself for you know the people around you um so to be able to be that one person for another woman for
005another man it's always been great to just be that person the support system I have for sure coming into college I was by myself but I am blessed and grateful that I was put in the place where even starting with my roommate was very supportive and my neighbors as well who still to this day have been supportive so I want to bring this community and unity that I have been brought from FSU forward to the community because together we can do so much we can learn so much and through this also a great supervisor who I've had with Zeal who has helped me in developing day by day so through this I can just bring it forward and bring it out to my community my any young woman that I work with as much as
006I can when I'm working through the the college process with the students like the immigrants mainly girls I could give to them like another point of view of everything that I did because like it's totally different when you tell them that they can do it then when you show them a person in front of them that did it you know like they can see another perspective whether they can do you know like they can do the same thing that I did they can fight for the future you know that they can get in college get a better future get a better life get a better job and that's it I love to do it and I know that I am here to do something I I was born to make some different and if I
007have to do it for the rest of my life to inspire all the people I would do it with my hope pleasure