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🎓✨ Congratulations are in store for former Motivos mentees Diomarys, Lizmary, Desiree, Karyme, and Clarissa who earned new degrees this month! We're proud of all they’ve accomplished and honored to have been part of their journeys. 💙📚

👏 Diomarys Negron Beck earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland Global Campus. She steadily worked on it part-time while moving across the country, being deployed to different parts of the world as a US Marine, getting married, and raising three children! She even recently completed her first half marathon. Talk about a goal-getter! She was part of the very first Motivos Teen Editorial Team back in 2006/7 when she attended Edison High School. 🌎🎖️👩‍🎓

👏🎓Lizmary earned her master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Western Governor’s University while teaching 8th grade English at Antonio Pantoja Charter School in Philadelphia. 🍎✏️ She is a graduate of Holy Family University and The Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush High School 🎭 🎓 Lizmary authored several cover stories for Motivos and continues to write for Motivos today! 💙✨

👏 Clarissa Faustin was a member of the Motivos Editorial Team back in 2016, conducting interviews during the school year and helping with Motivos summer camps. She recently earned her master’s degree in English from Arcadia University. 📖✨

👏 Desiree Fernandez completed her bachelor’s degree from Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture after transferring from Community College of Philadelphia. Desiree was a mentee and then a fellow for Motivos while in high school and college. She even started her own T-shirt company!🎨

👏 Karyme Font earned her bachelor’s degree in Speech and Communicative Disorders from Penn State University. She was part of the Motivos team throughout high school, started a writing club at her old middle school, authored a Motivos cover story, presented at a statewide conference with Motivos' founder and received the Dr. Juan Andrade, Jr. National Scholarship for Young Hispanic Leaders.

Your Motivos family is cheering you on always! Thank you for inspiring the next ge