Perla was born and raised in Orange County, went to UC Berkeley for her Bachelors, and worked in Bakersfield for her first job as a multimedia journalist.
SAN DIEGO — Nomad Pallek, a community college student with an almost perfect GPA, has defied the odds by securing acceptance to UC Berkeley, while living in a car with his family.“To say the least yes, it is painful," Pallek said."I still think about it to this day. Even right now when I got into UC Berkeley. I thought about ‘Oh I didn’t get a financial aid package, am I going to live out of my car again?’ it breaks you down as a person.
“We would get one meal from outside and break it down to three meals, and just eat that throughout the day,” Pallek said. During his time in the student government, Pallek advocated for these causes and was able to secure emergency grants from a nonprofit to support students in need. Now, he works at the college’s career center full-time.
CALIFORNIA CITY COLLEGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE COST OF LIVING HOMELESS STUDENTS MESA COLLEGE MIRAMAR COLLEGE SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY COLLEGE HOMELESSNESS
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