SAN ANTONIO La-Tieka Sims has always been involved in student government at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. She was the student body president, president of the Student Government Association and also the treasurer of the Delta chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated. Long term, I want to run for office, said La-Tieka Sims, Texas A&M University San Antonio graduate. I really want to push for women and especially women of color, said Sims. It baffles me sometimes about how long it has taken for even our city council to look the way it looks.

During her four years at Trinity University, she was able to graduate with three majors. She said her mom was born and raised in Mexico and her dads family comes from Puerto Rico. Her mother, a dual language teacher, also instilled in her the urge to go into education. She said its why she is pursuing her dream of being a high school Spanish teacher and is getting her masters in education at Trinity University. Camila has all of her masters program at Trinity University fully funded through a couple of scholarships, one being the Charles Butt Scholarship Raising Texas Teachers program.

Kaitlyn Valera is not only graduating from UTSA, but she is going back in the fall to get her PhD in biochemistry. I really love it. Kaitlyn is continuing her education at UTSA and she hopes to be on the forefront of research. I just I really love learning and I think I would be very tedious. Kaitlyn is currently doing research on a drug called Artemisinin -- another antimalarial drug like hydrochloroquine -- and she hopes her research helps the world fight against devastating diseases."

Jeffrey Martínez said his dream began at a very young age and was accomplished in the fall of 2013, however, Martínez said something was still missing. “Literally, I graduated college on a Saturday, and I started teaching (at Harlandale High School) that Tuesday right after,” Martínez said. Martínez is a high school math teacher. “I sponsored the class of 2016 at Harlandale,” Martínez said. “Only one other person has received their Masters, and she was also a math teacher and a high school counselor.

SAN ANTONIO Rhonda Cataline is a veteran, a nurse and after recently graduating from the University of the Incarnate Word, shes looking forward to helping others during this challenging time. My mother is actually a nurse and seeing everything that she did really inspired me, Cataline said. Rhonda Cataline has always been drawn to the medical field so, when she joined the Navy as enlisted, she was a hospital corpsman. After I graduated, I got commissioned into the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, said Cataline. So, it was a really special experience to learn at the Incarnate Word.

Graduating senior at the University of Texas at San Antonio Matt Moore used his second stint at UTSA to change his career, change his life and help his community. Its kind of like the joke that I went from studying man to studying machine, Moore said. Matt Moore is 27-years-old and he knows the campus very well, having first graduated from UTSA seven years ago with a degree in anthropology. Moore now hopes to take what he learned from UTSA and help the local community. Ill be working as a software engineer for H-E-B, working on their curbside and delivery, Moore said.