Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable spring 2022 graduates.

Communication graduate Valentino Mejia has not let any grass grow under his feet while at Arizona State University.

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Beginning his freshman year, Mejia has held several student worker jobs across campus to pay for his meals, transportation and books. He also went on a Summer Study Abroad program to Barcelona, Spain, and now holds not one, but two jobs, as a volunteer services coordinator for the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity and as a recruiter for the Tempe company DriveTime.

The Casa Grande native is graduating in spring 2022 with a bachelor's degree from the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication.

Even before he started taking classes, Mejia was already immersed at ASU, participating as a high school student in two summer programs, the César E. Chávez Leadership Institute and the W. P. Carey Fleischers Scholars program.

"In both programs, I was able to stay in the dorms and experience student life with other high school students who were like-minded," said Meija. "Ever since these programs, I knew that I wanted to be a Sun Devil because the campus was familiar to me and I could envision my future at ASU."

Mejia says that while finding time for all his activities was difficult at times, he knew he wanted to challenge himself so that he would be able to grow from the experiences.

"Many of the leadership positions and extracurricular activities were very...

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