Student Stories
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Gabriela Quintanilla is a DREAMer
Gabriela Quintanilla is a DREAMer. And she has some big dreams. Born in El Salvador, Gabriela came to the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant at age 13 and grew up in the Catskills region of New York. She went to high school in Liberty, and was very active in her student government. When President Obama…
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SLU Student Spotlight: Sima Petilli, LEAP to Teacher
Sima Petilli, a special-needs educator and participant in SLU’s LEAP-to-Teacher program who recently earned her master’s degree at Lehman College, was not going to let anything stand in her way of becoming a certified teacher – not even the sudden, mid-semester transition to working, studying, and full-time parenting from home in response to COVID-19, all…
