Carried by community: DSST alumna Dr. Analisse Nava earns her doctorate - and honors her roots (Clone)
She grew up in Green Valley Ranch (GVR), the same neighborhood where she would one day teach. She...
03/17/26
Carried by community: DSST alumna Dr. Analisse Nava earns her doctorate - and honors her roots (Clone)
She grew up in Green Valley Ranch (GVR), the same neighborhood where she would one day teach. She sat in the same kinds of classrooms where she would later stand at the front. And when she crossed the stage to receive her doctoral degree, she did it knowing she wasn't walking alone. She was carried by every person who had believed in her along the way.
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02/05/26
From first‑gen student to community builder, Perla Bustillos Gutierrez shares how DSST taught her to lead on her own terms
As a first-generation student at DSST: Montview, college felt like a distant possibility for Perla Bustillos Gutierrez, not a guaranteed next step. But, through guidance, encouragement, and consistent support, Bustillos Gutierrez, Class of 2014, came to see that a four-year college was within reach, even before she fully knew how to imagine herself there.
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