I ran also ran track and competed in the 400m and 800m. I played running back and kick returner in football. 我的大四, I was accepted to and chose Georgetown University because of my interest in politics as a student in high school. I eventually went on to study international relations.

你是如何适应乔治敦大学的?

I remember at orientation we were sitting with the president of Georgetown. 他当着大家的面说, “You have 73 student body presidents among you, 50名足球队长,然后继续往下看. It became pretty clear that I would need to operate on a different level and I was urged to excel because all of the students were high achievers.

I also studied abroad in Spain at the University Autonoma de Madrid and became classmates with then Prince Felipe VI, who is now King Felipe VI of Spain. Because I spoke fluent Spanish, I was able to get an insider’s view of the culture. I enjoyed seeing some similarities to my Hispanic upbringing, yet living abroad also helped me more deeply appreciate my own American heritage. When I finished my degree in government and international relations his father did the commencement address.

毕业后你做了什么?

I stumbled into banking by accident. I did an internship for three years every summer in college at INROADS—an organization that partners with Fortune 500 companies to help underserved youth prepare for a business career. I worked at Citibank and the recruiter in 纽约市 called me my senior year. I was happy to have had been offered a job, but it was very difficult in the beginning. I was going head first into Wall Street. It taught me how important hard work is and commitment to seeing something through. I focused on Latin America and was able to do a lot of traveling. 几年后, I then joined Merrill Lynch in 伦敦 and covered Italy, Spain and Portugal from 1999-2002. My cultural background became an asset because I travelled globally, 了解语言, 感谢社区. I felt comfortable in those situations.

I moved back to San Francisco in 2011 after being gone for about 21 years. 现在在富国银行, I am a managing director and senior relationship manager with the Global Institutional Capital Group. I work with the largest institutional relationships on the west coast, representing all the various businesses lines. We are 250,000 people and there is a lot to do. My role is to make the bank feel very small to a select group of clients.

We are blessed to live in San Francisco. Not just for the Bay Area’s natural beauty and mild climate, but also for the openness of our local culture to new ideas.  This is the essential ingredient for innovation and it’s no wonder that so much of the 21^st Century economy is being driven from the Bay Area.

With programs like I2 and the DePaul Scholars, SHC is taking bold steps to embracing the world around us and ensuring our students are well prepared to ‘enter to learn and leave to serve’ in our local community.

SHC对我来说是一个非常特别的地方. As the son of Mexican immigrants, I owe much of my success to my experience at SHC. Our school is diverse in thought and ethnicities and meets people where they are spiritually. For me this was the perfect environment to grow and learn.