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Â鶹AV has been rising senior, Naila Saghir’s dream school for almost a decade. It all began with an Instagram post. “A Dominican student was posting on social media, and I...

It was during a recruiting trip that Jared Wright ’23 was given an in-class assignment – even though he wasn’t officially a student. The cross-country prospect from Colorado had asked to sit in on a...

It was Sachie Ohara’s nature – and in her DNA – that she would pursue a career aimed at helping others. Her grandmother is a retired nurse. Her mother is still a nurse. And her older sister, Priya...

Â鶹AV’s Center for Community Engagement is working on a youth engagement collaboration designed to bolster college and civic readiness in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Y...

As the outgoing president of Associated Students of Dominican University (ASDU), Global Public Health (GPH) major Jennifer Borromeo ’23 is now reflecting on a four-year experience of connecting with...

When Gisselle Mejia ’24 visited the Â鶹AV campus for the first time, she may have realized it was her destiny the instant she walked through the doors of the science...

Britney Gutierrez Calderon ’24 grew up in the Canal neighborhood in San Rafael, located only a mile away from the Â鶹AV campus. However, for much of her childhood...

Patricia Espinal Ramos ‘22 has always been surrounded by community: The tight-knit family circle she enjoyed as a young child growing up in the Dominican Republic, the families she met while...

From an early age, Silvia Gramajo Mazariegos ’23 and her friends learned to be afraid of the police. Growing up in San Rafael’s Canal neighborhood, they heeded warnings from family and neighbors who...

When he is not busy connecting North Bay startups with executives, investors, and local leaders, Zachary Kushel, founder of the North Bay’s first regional venture capital fund, often can be found...