Orientation Leaders 2015
Hometown: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Major: Pre-Nursing
CSUSB Involvement: SOAR
Favorite Quote: "I’d rather be at Hogwarts." - Me
Hometown: Ontario, California
Major: Human Development
Minor: Sociology
Career Goal: Social Worker
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR, and shopping
Favorite Quote: "Less self-doubt, more self-love."
Hometown: Riverside, California
Major: Economics
Career Goal: Rapper
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR, rapping, and writing music
Favorite Quote: "They hate us 'cause they ain't us."
Hometown: West Covina, California
Major: Liberal Studies
Career Goal: Owning an art gallery
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR, singing, dancing, drawing, and hanging out with friends
Favorite Quote: "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get."
Hometown: Colton, California
Major: Communication-Public Relations
Minor: Gender Sexuality Studies
Career Goal: Still exploring
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR, reading, listening to music, and cooking
Favorite Quote: "What is life without a little risk?" –Sirius Black
Hometown: Moreno Valley, California
Major: Graphic Design and Marketing
Career Goal: Actor/Own a brand
Extracurricular Activities: Film Club, acting, and shopping
Favorite Quote: "Everything in life is luck."
Hometown: San Bernardino, California
Major: Liberal Studies
Career Goal: Elementary School Teacher
Extracurricular Activities: Coyote Soccer Club, Zeta Tau Alpha, SOAR, National Society of Leadership and Success, going to the gym, playing soccer, shopping, and hanging out with friends
Favorite Quote: "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." –Malcolm X
Hometown: Adelanto, California
Major: Undeclared
Career Goal: Become a teacher, then a Principal
Extracurricular Activities: Jogging
Favorite Quote: "Don't look back; you're not going that way."
Hometown: Fontana, California
Major: Social Work
Career Goal: Social Worker
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR, running, and lifting weights
Favorite Quote: "This too shall pass".
Hometown: Ontario, California
Major: Biology/ Business
CSUSB Involvement: Kappa Delta, SOAR
Favorite Quote: "May God break my heart so completely that the whole world fall in."
Hometown: Barstow, California
Major: Human Communication
Career Goal: Student Affairs
Extracurricular Activities: Housing & Residential Life, The Well, Student Rec and Fitness Center, ministry, tennis, video games, solving cube puzzles, being me!
Favorite Quote: Don't have one. Lol.
Hometown: Indio, California
Major: Social Work
Career Goal: Medical social worker in a hospital
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR Leader, Sociology Club, SAIL & First Generation College Group, W4W Mentor Program for Housing & Residential Life, Resident Assistant for Housing & Residential Life
Favorite Quote: "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart." –Helen Keller
Hometown: San Bernardino, California
Major: Criminal Justice
Career Goal: Federal law enforcement officer
Extracurricular Activities: Recreation and Wellness Center staff, Special Events and Guest Services staff, wrestling, hiking, traveling
Favorite CSUSB Memory: Traveling to Alaska with the T.R.A.C.K.S. program to do community service and recreational activities
Favorite Quote: "What defines us is how we will rise after falling."
Hometown: Moreno Valley, California
Major: Communication
Minor: Gender Sexuality Studies
Career Goal: Director of Orientation
Extracurricular Activities: Student Alumni Association, CSUSB Debate Team, Volleyball Club, Rotaract Club, Public Relation Student Society of America
Favorite Quote: "Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming." –Finding Nemo
Hometown: San Jacinto, California
Major: Pre-Nursing
Career Goal: RN or Neonatology Nurse
Extracurricular Activities: Lubos PASO, Lubos Celebration of Pilipino Culture, working at Housing & Residential Life, playing the piano, guitar and ukulele, singing, reading, dancing, and drawing
Favorite Quote: "The journey of life is like sailing through the wind. At times it will get tough and it will sail in the wrong direction, but you can't give up. You may not be able to direct the wind, but you can always adjust the sails."
Hometown: Rancho Cucamonga, California
Major: Communications - Public Relations
Career Goal: I'm still exploring!
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR, photography, and reading
Favorite Quote: "Worry less, giggle more."
Hometown: Indio, California
Major: Pre-Nursing
Favorite Quote: "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." - George Sand
Hometown: Oak Hills, California
Major: Biopsychology
Career Goal: Child Psychiatrist
Extracurricular Activities: SAAS, BSU, Neuroscience Club, University Dance Company, dancing, and sewing
Favorite Quote: "The goal isn't to live forever, but to create something that will."
Hometown: Rancho Cucamonga, California
Major: Kinesiology
Career Goal: Physical Therapist for Children
Extracurricular Activities: EOP
Favorite Quote: "Be yourself because people who mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind." –Dr. Seuss
Hometown: San Bernardino, California
Major: Business Administration-Marketing and IST
Career Goal: Entrepreneur - Own My Own Business
Extracurricular Activities: Hispanic Scholar Chapter, Lubos PASO, Student Alumni Association, ACE, singing, dancing, and talking
Favorite Quote: "Don't let others break you, let them make you."
Hometown: San Bernardino, California
Major: Communication
Career Goal: Promotions Director
Extracurricular Activities: Volunteering for Coyote Radio, skating, and DJing
Favorite Quote: "I want to be a better person than I was yesterday."
Hometown: Beaumont, California
Major: Mathematics
Career Goal: Math Teacher/Professor
Extracurricular Activities: SMSU Program Board, National Society of Leadership and Success, Student Alumni Association, dancing, playing the piano
Favorite Quote: May the force be with you!" –Star Wars
Hometown: San Jose, California
Major: Kinesiology
CSUSB Involvement: Sigma Phi Epsilon, KSA, SOAR
Favorite Quote: "It was lit fam!"
Hometown: Bloomington, California
Major: Undeclared
Career Goal: Career in Math
Extracurricular Activities: Going to CSUSB basketball games, and hanging out with my dog
Favorite Quote: "Just do it!"
Hometown: Ontario, California
Major: Psychology & Child Development
CSUSB Involvement: Zeta Tau Alpha, SOAR, NSCS
Favorite Quote: "Stay pretty, be educated."
Hometown: Grand Terrance, California
Major: Health Science, Public Health
CSUSB Involvement: Alpha Delta Pi, Student Mentoring program
Favorite Quote: "To infinity and beyond!" - Buzz Lightyear
Hometown: Indio, California
Major: Biochemistry
Minor: Physics
Career Goal: Dentist
Extracurricular Activities: Math Club, playing tennis, and eating
Hometown: Beaumont
Major: Business Administration, Marketing and Management
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR
Favorite CSUSB Memory: Getting my first college A!
Major: Psychology/Human Development
Hometown: San Bernardino, California
Major: Nursing
Minor: Psychology
Career Goal: Nurse Practitioner-Maternal Fetal Medicine
Extracurricular Activities: NSCS, Delta Epsilon Iota, Coyote Nurses, drawing, and listening to music
Favorite Quote: 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
Hometown: Alta Loma, California
Major: Anthropology
CSUSB Involvement: SOAR, Admissions and Student Recruitment
Favorite Quote: "Don’t talk about it, be about it."
Hometown: Rialto, California
Major: Criminal Justice
Career Goal: Bailiff or Highway Patrol Officer
Extracurricular Activities: Criminal Justice Club, SOAR, playing soccer, watching Netflix, being outdoors, hiking, and running
Favorite Quote: "Don't wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect."
Hometown: Rialto
Major: Communication Studies, Mass Communication
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR, Admissions & Student Recruitment, Student Mentoring Program
Favorite CSUSB Memory: Writing and directing my first short film for my Comm 345 class!
Hometown: Rialto, California
Major: Kinesiology, Exercise Science and Allied Health
Career Goal: Surgical or pediatric nurse
Extracurricular Activities: Brother of Delta Sigma Phi, reading, hiking, paintball, going on adventures, Disneyland!
Favorite CSUSB Memory: Getting to watch Gabriel Iglesias perform live in Coussoulis Arena.
Favorite Quote: "Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age and dreams are forever." - Walt Disney
Hometown: Ontario, California
Major: Business
CSUSB Involvement: Kappa Delta
Favorite Quote: "You don’t even go here!"
Hometown: Ontario
Major: Kinesiology, Exercise Science
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR
Favorite CSUSB Memory: Becoming a coordinator for the SOAR program!
Hometown: Fontana, California
Major: Public Health Education
Career Goal: Physician
Extracurricular Activities: Student Alumni Association, dancing, watching Netflix, spending time with family and friends, drinking tea
Favorite Quote: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" –Aristotle
Hometown: Fontana, California
Major: Social Work
Career Goal: Medical Social Worker
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR, Lambda Theta Alpha, and tumbling
Favorite Quote: "Be yourself, love yourself."
Hometown: Fontana, California
Major: Pre-Nursing
Career Goal: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR, studying, hanging with friends, and listening to music
Favorite Quote: "The ones who follow the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been."
Hometown: San Bernardino, California
Major: Kinesiology - Pre Physical Therapy
Career Goal: Physical Therapist (pro soccer team)
Extracurricular Activities: Kinesiology Student Association, playing soccer, playing videogames, and hiking
Favorite Quote: "Ball is life."
Hometown: Rowland Heights, California
Major: Nursing
Career Goal: Pediatric oncology nurse
Extracurricular Activities: SOAR, Netflixing
Favorite CSUSB Memory: The two summers I’ve spent with the SOAR team (2014, 2015)!
Favorite Quote: "The good old days are now." - Unknown
Hometown: Corona, California
Major: Liberal Studies
Career Goal: 3rd Grade Teacher
Extracurricular Activities: Literacy Center Tutor, Food Services, Delta Sigma Chi, reading, playing volleyball, watching Netflix, and listening to music
Favorite Quote: "Never give up!"