Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Melissa Aguirre!
Melissa Aguirre is a Bachelor’s in Social Work candidate interning at PASOs. She will graduate from the University of South Carolina at the age of nineteen and she hopes to attend law school next fall and pursue a career in immigration law, eventually working for a non-profit organization. She is a first-generation college student and daughter of two undocumented Mexican immigrants. She has been interning at PASOs since the Spring of 2015 and since this was her first exposure to working with the Latino community, it made her even more certain that she wanted to pursue a career where she was helping the Latino population. She has been volunteering since she was sixteen years old with the Special Olympics and animal shelters. She is the service officer for her sorority and helped organize a gala last year to help fund a total of seven students apply for DACA.
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