Senior Gabriela Osorio presented two sessions at the annual Latino Educational Achievement Progress (LEAP) conference in Tacoma in January. In her first presentation, “Rejected Dreams,” Gabriela spoke to an audience of 400 about how she used her senior project to educate the community about the DREAM Act—a law that would create a path to citizenship for undocumented students who graduate from college in the U.S.

The next day, Gabriela spoke to a room of 800 people about the importance of parental involvement in a child’s education.

Gabriela plans to attend college and become a writer. “I want to one day be able to publish fiction books that were inspired by my life and the people who have been a part of it,” says Gabriela.