Saints of Santa Fe

Saint of Santa Fe | Steve Vutsinas

February 2, 2021 – “ I started as an intern with the Santa Fe Counseling Center when I was a student in the University of Florida’s Counselor Education program. I really like counseling and I really like working with college students.

Saint of Santa Fe | Elisabeth Eder

January 25, 2021 – “I decided to start a petition on campus last year to bring LGBTQ resources to the campus. I went around and asked students, ‘Hey, would you like to sign this petition to bring resources to the

Saint of Santa Fe | Andy Barnes

January 11, 2021 – I came to Santa Fe after graduating from Buchholz. I literally grew up just on the other side of what is now Meadowbrook Golf Course. So, proximity and ease of access was a big factor. Also,

Saint of Santa Fe | Sydnee King

November 30, 2020 – I taught my younger brother, he’s also homeschooled, up until this year. I help my parents teach him math, so that was kind of my job. My other younger brother, I have five brothers by the

Saint of Santa Fe | Derrick Jones, Ph.D.

November 16, 2020 – Police departments and sheriff departments, they should resemble the communities they serve. I joined the police department in 1996 in Baltimore, Maryland, and back then people were like, “you don’t join the police if you’re black!”

Saint of Santa Fe | Alejandro Cabrera

“I graduated high school in 2007 and while I liked school, I HATED math, so college wasn’t something I was looking into at all. I started my journey at Santa Fe College in 2011 and enrolled in remedial math (MAT0022

Ethics Bowl champ offers advice on civil discourse

“The feedback that I get most often when I’m talking to people who have very different political ideologies is that they miss having civil conversations. The professors at Santa Fe were the first that noticed me and took me under

Saint of Santa Fe | Brittany “Bee” Lynch

October 28, 2020 – The college I went to in California was a Community College that was in my hometown. It was very, very outdated. The library had carpet from like the ’70s – kind of groovy. I studied Multimedia

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Saint of Santa Fe | Leroy Williams

October 15, 2020 – “I was a mass communication major so I didn’t really have an education background, other than my parents were both teachers and I wanted to coach basketball. Fresh out of college, I did the 4-12 shift

Saint of Santa Fe | Carolina Currea

October 5, 2020 – “I studied food engineering and worked in the food industry. I got married, then I was a stay at home mom. In the meantime, I volunteered in a pre-K classroom. I started tutoring. Then I said

Saints of Santa Fe College – Kane Ahern

Sept. 14, 2020 –– I’m a product of the foster system here in Gainesville. My parents were not well enough to take care of me. So, I was raised in this wonderful family. I credit a lot of my character,

Saint of Santa Fe | Leeanne Odum

August 10, 2020 – “I went to New York, I did six weeks as a registered nurse stationed on a tele-cardiac COVID floor where all of our patients were COVID-positive. I felt like I needed to make a bigger impact

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