About me

If my life were to be reviewed, measured, and analyzed, many would conclude that I shouldn't be here today. I grew up in a tough town called Casa Blanca in Riverside, California. I was a statistic of barrio life—a dropout with no hopes of higher education, shackled by circumstances and falsehoods. As a Mexican-American, Chicano, I was limited by preconceived notions that achieving success or my dreams was a mere fallacy...