Category: Alumni
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Ivette Trevino
As a first-generation college student, Ivette Trevino feels proud of having received her associate degree from Richard J. Daley College in 2005. “Working at my pace at my time, at Daley, really prepared me for where I’m at today,” said Ivette. Ivette enrolled in accounting and business courses in 1999-2002 that sparked a huge interest…
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William Ma
William Ma was the first student to be accepted to Wright College’s Engineering Pathway. He earned his A.E.S from Wilbur Wright College in 2017, and his B.S from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2019. William now works as a product engineer for the architectural division at Masonite International Corporation. Coming from Lane Tech College…
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Maureen Burns
Sometimes it can take longer than we think to find an ideal career path, but we can end up in a great place. It took me a few extra stops on my career journey to figure out what I wanted to do, but I’m proud of where I am today and happy to be making…
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Hamza Gayurzoda
“The students I met at Wright College were on par with the students I’ve met at Columbia, and the classes I took – especially the math – were tough. Those classes prepared me to be successful when I transferred.” When Hamza Gayurzoda came to the U.S. from Tajikistan in 2013 after he graduated high school…
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James Featherstone
From art to engineering, my pathway from high school to college wasn’t linear, but City Colleges of Chicago helped me find my next steps. I moved to Chicago from suburban Bartlett just after high school to pursue a degree in fine art. But things changed as time went on, and after a decade in the…
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Rosetta Sellers-Varela
Music has always been one of Rosetta Sellers-Varela’s passions—she’s a professional freelance musician with a degree in music. Now, she’s back in school focusing on her other passion: biological sciences. Rosetta’s love for science and her history with City Colleges of Chicago are both longstanding. She began her college journey studying biology at Western Illinois…
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Eivan Herrera-Valdez
My academic path has been unique, and I’m excited to see where it takes me next. In high school, I took a long bus ride from my Southeast Side neighborhood to Jones College Prep in the Loop each day. I tried my best to be involved in the Association of Latin American students and student…
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Ryan Magsayo
After spending six years as a combat medic with the U.S. Navy, Ryan Magsayo knew it would be hard to adjust to his life back to civilian life, especially life as a college student. He had been deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan during his time in service, working on the front lines to treat…
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Anthony Huerta
Anthony Huerta has already locked down a job at Amazon headquarters in Seattle – and he hasn’t even earned his bachelor’s degree yet. Anthony had been interested in computer science while he was in high school, but it was his Spanish teacher who told him about the Engineering Pathway to the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign…
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Emon Fowler
I’m from Bronzeville, and I grew up in the South suburbs where I attended Thornridge High School. After graduating from high school, I went on to beauty college, attained a license to practice, and went on to teach cosmetology. When I decided to return to school, I chose Kennedy-King College because it was close to…