Luis Garcia Angeles MAT ‘22 knows the lives many of his future students have lived.
A first-generation college student, Garcia Angeles started his life in a farming community in Mexico. When he was 9, he moved with his family — his “amazing parents who have only a third- and sixth-grade education” — to Oregon, where he started fourth grade as an English language learner.
He's not only the first in his family to attend college, he earned his master of arts in teaching at Pacific, becoming a teacher for kids like him.
“My zeal for education makes me a great candidate to be in a position to influence a change on the cyclical trend of generational poverty among Latinos and other minorities,” he said. “I have lived in this area since I immigrated to the States, and I will work to give back to the community even more than it has given me.”