As CEO and President of Contra Costa Medical Career College, I spend my days focused on higher education and serving students. But when I left high school, I could only dream of maybe one day going to college. Though I had done very well in school as a younger student and was especially interested in and excelled in the sciences, a dysfunctional family situation and related circumstances left me without direction, support, and energy to focus on my academic life.

But even as I made the decision to enter the workforce rather than college, I was aware that if I wanted sufficient income and the stability that my upbringing had not offered, I would need some type of professional training.