This year, Katelin Tanjuaquio joined us as an undergraduate mentor from UCLA to give back to the California Shaman Program. Katelin credits this program for igniting her aspirational scientific goals as a high school student, she said, “this program greatly impacted my educational and career goals, exposing me to lab settings I was previously not able to be apart of due to a lack of resources. Its impact pushed me to write about it in various personal statements for colleges and scholarships, for which I received positive results. Because this program provided me with many opportunities, I wanted to continue to see the program develop and flourish so that future students may have similar experiences.”