Adrian Guzman remembers what his own experience was like growing up.
And those memories are what motivates the Saint John’s University sophomore to try and make things a little better for those facing similar situations.
Guzman is a graduate of Immokalee (Florida) High School, located in one of Florida’s poorest communities. He’s now at SJU, thanks in part to the Immokalee Scholarship Program, which was founded to help first-generation college students from the area pursue higher education at the school.
But his ties to his home community remain strong. As a freshman last December, he organized a toy drive for students at Village Oaks Elementary, where he completed 500 volunteer hours in high school working with students in kindergarten through second grade as part of the Guadalupe Center’s Tutor Corps program.
