Divina Carrillo represents District 5 Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales on the San Antonio Youth Commission, a civic engagement platform composed of 22 San Antonio high school students, managed by P16Plus Council of Greater Bexar county. Divina is a senior at Incarnate Word High School who enjoys learning, reading, and writing. She plans to study several fields within the Social Sciences throughout her undergraduate career to prepare her for law school, which she hopes to attend in the near future. Upon the completion of her studies, Divina hopes to return to San Antonio to immerse herself in local government, and eventually begin a non-profit for economically-disadvantaged and colored youth.
The following essay details my life in San Antonio’s Westside and reveals some of the memories and people who impacted my decision to pursue Higher Education. As a graduating senior I hope to attend law school, pursue a job in
This blog is the fourth in a year-long series written by students serving on the San Antonio Youth Commission. The San Antonio Youth Commission is a civic engagement platform for San Antonio High School students and is managed by the P16Plus
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020