Christian Diaz

Christian Diaz

Christian went to Schurz High School as a teenager, then dropped out and went to Antonia Pantoja, which is an alternative school, now he’s helping kids to stay in school and not drop out like he did.

He leads students to succeed by getting them to help others on issues like immigrants’ rights to stay together as a family.  He believes that young adults need a good education; we need less students dropping out of school. Kids need to stop making bad choices that affect their future and possibly ending up in jail. Students should get more involved in programs; we should all have equal/same opportunities.

Christian has worked 3 years for LSNA, and he went to North Carolina to help out others with issues of education. He is part of the immigration committee, the Dream Act which was called the dream fund.  He wanted to help students with their education, become new Americans, and teach them about democracy and voter registration.  Everybody’s voice matters as does everybody working together. Christian feels good about helping others and he makes a difference by working with his community.  Christian believes that there is always going to be 2 sides; the wealthy and the poor/working class, some who struggle and some who don’t. Some people work to support their families also being able to connect with a student’s right now he works on being a community organizer.

Many students are dropping out and they are getting into trouble, and ending up in prison.  Christian believes that it affects our community because schools exist for students to succeed and to do well and go to college, not prepare you to get out of school and go to jail. “Kids drop out for dumb reasons and its unfair and it is an injustice too many of our are getting arrested”

Taking what we think into interest and students will get more involved if they see what they wanted to see and taking it to the board of education, not that there is some schools that get more resources than others that is unfair, unequal, to keep kids in school and out of the prison pipe line. He’s not here for a paycheck. He does it because he cares and he has spent 3 years of his life helping others and that makes him a hero. “Keep a limit don’t cross the line”

Hello. My name is MaryCruz Ocampo and I’m going to talk about how Christian has inspired me. This has inspired me to keep coming to school. Now that I see many kids drop out, I think education is the only thing that no one can take away from you. If you fall, you get up, but education is something big in your life. It’s something that not everyone has and there’s kids that wish to have, but they don’t have the opportunity and I would like to help like Christian. It makes me want to not make mistakes, but everyone does, which we have to “not cross the line to not go to the prison pipeline.” In my opinion, it is good to know someone admires you and would like to be like you. We don’t have to be perfect,  but we don’t loose anything by trying.