DANIELA DE LA CRUZ

Hometown: Dallas, Texas
School: Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School

“It’s a community. A community that not everyone has in their own communities back home. Some of us grew up with people who looked like us but some of us didn’t. It’s also a community where everyone is striving for the same thing: better the Latinx experience/community here in the States… R2L NextGen is not just “another program” like my parents would say, it’s a family.”