Biography

Valeria Ramirez is there for anyone who ever needs her and values human interaction above all else. She aspires to work as a counselor in a prison even though most people discourage her from such a potentially dangerous job. She cares about the lives of the people in her community and is pursuing a degree in sociology in order to help others. She has faced many trials in her life surrounding tough medical decisions involving her physical and mental health. Although she often suffers spells of anxiety she is always positive and does not see herself as any less simply because she experiences things differently. From a low-income neighborhood and a less-than-advantaged high school, she made it all the way to UCLA. She mastered the art of independence by pushing herself from school to school until she made it to her own dorm in LA. She always pushes herself to be better and what other people see as “hard work” is just her going through each day and not wasting a minute of opportunity. She is so full of emotion and jubilance, and she stands her ground and makes a statement through her work in classes and conversations with others. She doesn’t stand back and wait for things to happen, she steps forward and makes them happen.