12th Grade: 2025-2026

As a senior, I had the opportunity to take our schools AP Research class as part of the AP Capstone project. We were tasked with writing a collegiate level research paper with out own literature review, methodology, results, and dissucssion sections. I spent the year planning, researching, and conducting a sociolinguistic study about language change among Spanish speaking migrants in the Canton region. My final paper, which is 75% of my exam score, is provided above, totalling at around 45 pages.

This summer, I was selected as one of two delegates at my Boys State conference in Colombus to represent Ohio in the Boys Nation Senate in Washington D.C. There, with the other 99 Senators from across the nation, I debated wrote, debated, and passed legislation in mock Senate sessions. My bill, Immigration Reform and Border Security Act (shown above) , which passed in committee and made it on the docket, but was unforunetly never brought to the full Senate floor to be debated due to time constraints

Last year, I was elected by current Spanish Honor Society members to serve as our high school's Spanish Honor Society chapter president for the 2025-2026 school year. As president, I focused on expanding our chapter's partnership with out district's ESL program, continuing the Multicultural Night fundaraiser started by the previous officers, taking on leadership in our lecciones fundraiser as serving as Curriculum Director, and coordinating with other officers and advisors to conduct regular meetings and events.

My AP Research paper was like no other project I have ever done for school. I had to go beyond a mere search-and-report style paper typical for most assignments and come up with my own study, with a method and unique results that answered a question previously unaddressed by the Body of Knowledge. To do so, countless ours of research, reading the leading academic publications in the world of United States Spanish sociolinguistics was necessary to even begin. The rigor and intitionality of my research is a skill that I will certain use going forward in the academic world. 

Boys Nation is often characterized by its slogan "A Week to Shape a Lifetime", and it could not be more true. During my week long stay in DC, I meet some of the smartest, most motivated, and diligent students my age from all over the country, and I had the especially tough role of advocating for my bill on the Senate floor. Doing so, I had to balance the diverse political, social, and cultural persepectives of the other Senators to even have a shot of my bill passing. Because of my willingness to compromise and amend my bill, I was able to get it passed through committee. 

Since my freshman year, I have looked up to and aspired to be a part of the Jackson Spanish Honor Society's Rosa Montero Chapter, so it was a truly full-circle moment that I had the honor as serving as the president of the organization my senior year. Being a long-time member, I was quick to work with other officers and our advisor, Sra. Muñoz, to keep the Society running and even expand its partnerships to assist the Hispanic community of Jackson. Being in this organization truly allowed my love of Spanish to blossom and motivates me to persue a carreer as an immigration lawyer.