Tania Mondragon is a senior student at Hoover High School in the VAPA Academy.

For quite some time now, Tania has been a huge fan of video games, pizza, shopping, hanging out and many other things that involve spending quality time with friends and family. On the contrary she isn’t so fond of things like homework overloads and fake friends who send texts last minute that they decided to stay home from school.

Throughout her years of high school, Tania is glad to have been a part of the Drama club from her freshman year up until her senior year and holding the position of club secretary. After high school comes to an end, Tania’s main goal is to pursue a career in dental hygiene. Firstly by taking the required prerequisites and following that plan by doing a two year program to get an associates in dental hygiene.

One of the global issues that has been surrounding Tania’s mind for a few years is climate change. With this catastrophe that has been around for decades and big cooperation/regular people who don’t take action in this matter, it is set to progress into worse problems for future generations. On that note, Tania thinks that she and many others can take actions to address this issue on things like using more sustainable alternatives. Some ideas of this are as simple as considering a different form of transportation, supporting more sustainable brands and the three r’s which are…

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle