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and ability to teach someone who’s down and out how to get up.”

His most meaningful volunteer experience is his work in the COPE Health Scholars program, where he served over 500 direct-patient care hours at St. John’s Regional Medical Center and Pleasant Valley Hospital. His experience of ambulating, transporting, feeding, and changing hospitalized patients within various departments of the hospital fills him with feelings of humility and fulfillment. “I believe that we all have two obligations as humans. The first is to reach our true potential as individuals. The second is to uplift and aid those around us. We are all we got.”

Camila Guzman is an alumna of CSUCI. She graduated in 2018 with a B.S. in Environmental Science & Resource Management (ESRM). Prior to her graduation, she completed a capstone project that showcased three easy at-home methods to participate in composting. As Camila developed her project, it gained attention from her cohort as it was a unique, but simple, way to utilize soil towards global warming reduction efforts. She felt inspired to turn the capstone project into a community project from the support of her peers and mentors, as something like this did not exist for Ventura County at the time. And thus, Queen of Compost was born!