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SECRET IDENTITY:                             His references at school and work praise
                                             his dedication to self-improvement,
Kevin Arriaga                                steadfast support of peers, and infectious
                                             optimism for the future.
 KEVIN ARRIAGA is a senior at San Mateo
 High School who plans to attend a local     For Kevin, an Al Teglia Jobs for Youth
 community college before transferring to    Scholarship will help realize life-long
 San Diego State University where he will    dreams of attending college, easing
 major in Business.                          financial burdens on his family, and
                                             proving his potential to go farther than
 He works as a swim instructor and           anyone said was possible through grit and
 lifeguard in Burlingame to support his      hard work.
 family’s expenses, including caring for
 his grandparents’ health issues. Kevin
 views his challenges, including a learning
 disability, as motivation to work harder.

SUPERHERO NAME:  SUPER POWER:                SPONSOR:
                                             Friends of JFY/Burlingame/
Aquaman          Breathing Underwater        Bohannon Foundation

SECRET IDENTITY:

STEPHANIE BARILLAS

STEPHANIE BARILLAS is a senior at San        Her teachers praise her perseverance in
Mateo High School who plans to study         the face of adversity, her consistent drive
at Skyline College before transferring to    to improve, and her emotional openness
a four-year university to study Criminal     as strengths which will take her far.
Justice and eventually law school.
                                             For Stephanie, an Al Teglia Jobs for Youth
She has experienced first-hand the           Scholarship will clear financial obstacles
unintended consequences of our justice       to her childhood dream of improving
system on families, and wants to reform      outcomes for families like hers, and
it to be more humane and less financially    support her goal of being the first woman
burdensome on low-income communities.        in her family to attend college.

SUPERHERO NAME:  SUPER POWER:                 2018 JFY Youth Speaker

Superman         Helping Others              SPONSOR:
                                             Friends of JFY/First National
                                             Bank/Robin, Ferguson &
                                             Kempton, LLP
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