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If you ask Wanda Nguyen about her career plans, she does not hesitate with her answer: She will graduate from À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, attend dental school and eventually become an orthodontist, she says. And then she smiles.

Money is important to Steve Deeloo. Really important. It’s a value the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ senior developed growing up with his family in Iraq with little to get by.

As a professor in À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s Department of , is passionate about the success of her students. But she knows firsthand that success in a university classroom doesn’t happen without plenty of preparation.

Eddie Bocanegra’s experiences have led him through a time of turmoil in his community to a life of service to his community. The eldest of five children born to immigrant parents, he experienced an upbringing many families in his circumstance experience: struggle.