Jessenia Ayala is a senior at Hoover High School and is in the AHHC academy.

Her favorite movie of all time would be The Pursuit of Happyness. This movie showed her the importance of protecting her dreams and appreciating who and what she has. Although this may not mean a lot to some people, the movie holds a great deal of value that many overlook. She enjoys being around her family, especially her niece Priscella, who’s two years old. Priscella is the reason why Jess wants to pursue child development and one day become a preschool teacher.

If you look up the meaning of Jessenia, you’ll see her name means flowers. This led to her having her own flower arrangement business, and it’s been two years since she started. Baking is something Jess does for fun, but it soon also turned into a wonderful success in business. La Cornue is the absolute dream oven she hopes to have in her house. These things are what fill her soul and clear her mind after a hard day.

She loves being around people who make her think deeper and see life from angles she never considered. You’ll always see her with her headphones and her coffee because those two alone are what make her, her. Jess is obsessed with nature and always takes a picture, and just puts her music on to sit and admire God’s creation of the world. Over the years, she has learned so much.  She thinks they are people who helped her become the person she ended up being, and she’s grateful for them even if they were never meant to be in her life forever.