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I grew up in a low-income neighborhood in Peru, in a dysfunctional family where money was often uncertain and daily life could be unstable. There were times when my family could not reliably afford even basic necessities.

Starting when I was around seven or eight years old, I worked selling goods as a street vendor and doing cleaning and janitorial work. Sometimes, the little money I earned allowed me to afford breakfast, school supplies, or other basic things I needed that day. I learned very early what it meant to worry about money and to continue working even when I was tired or should have been able to focus simply on being a child.

For a long time, education felt like the only path that could give me a different future.

One of my earliest memories of teaching also happened around that time. While working, I began helping some of my friends prepare for school tests. They would occasionally give me a small amount of money in return. At that age, I did not think of myself as a teacher. I was simply helping them understand something while also trying to support myself.

Looking back, I believe that was where my love for teaching began. Teaching helped another person move forward, but it also helped me continue learning and believing that my circumstances did not have to define my future.

As I grew older, I began receiving academic awards at the school and district levels. Those achievements eventually gave me the opportunity to attend one of the strongest high schools in Peru, where I completed the International Baccalaureate at a boarding school.

Years later, the child who once worked to afford breakfast and school materials was accepted to study Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Reaching a university I had once considered almost impossibly far away showed me how much a single opportunity, combined with education and persistence, can change the direction of someone’s life.

However, that journey also made educational inequality even more visible to me. I met brilliant, curious, and hardworking students who had the ability to accomplish extraordinary things but lacked access to strong schools, technology, mentors, or even basic information about the opportunities available to them.

I recognized myself in many of those students. The main difference was not that I had worked harder or had more potential. It was that, at a crucial moment in my life, I received an opportunity that allowed me to take one step forward.

OpenApply is my attempt to help more students find that first step.