In her freshman year at California State University, Dominguez Hills, Keyoshia Ray was invited to join Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) by then-ASI president Ifeanyi Ebigbo (2006-2008). She jumped at the chance and now says that change is what inspired her to become a leader. “I’m the type of person who says, ‘Don’t talk about it, do something about it,’” says the new ASI president, who took office on July 1. “If you want change, you have to create the change."

Last August, Angela Albright, associate dean of the College of Health and Human Services at California State University, Dominguez Hills, returned from Asmara, Eritrea, with more than a memory card full of photos. The most notable memento of her time in the Northeast African country was the bridge she built between CHHS and a family in the village of Wikidiba.