Anastacia Garcia is a 16-year-old senior attending Birmingham Community Charter High School. Born September 20, 2007, in Sylmar, California, she dreams of becoming a famous psychologist and making her family proud. She has two...

Brianna Alvarado is a 17-year-old senior attending Birmingham Charter High School. This is now Brianna's second year in journalism and she is happy to be in journalism for a second year because she enjoys writing stories, lik...

Anastasiia Serova is a senior at BCCHS. She was born and raised in Russia until her family moved to the U.S. three years ago. Even though she shares a different background, she feels welcomed here. Accustomed to academic rigor, s...

Destiny Coronel is a 15-year-old and she is currently a sophomore at Birmingham Community Charter High School. Destiny was born in Van Nuys, California. Her mom is Salvadorian and her dad is Mexican making her Salvadorian/Mexican ...

Melani is currently a 17-year-old senior at Birmingham. She has attended this school for the past three years and she can say that she would consider it to be a great school for people to learn and evolve. She’s made many g...

Elizabeth Chavez is a 15-year-old sophomore attending Birmingham Community Charter High School. Elizabeth was born in Burbank, California. Her dad is from El Salvador and Guatemala and her mom is from the U.S. and she has one y...

Romina Molinari is a 16-year-old sophomore at Birmingham Community Charter High School. Romina was born in Los Angeles, California, and both of her parents are from Argentina. She has one younger sister named Ana. Some of the t...

Chris is a 16-year-old senior at Birmingham Community Charter High School. He likes watching and playing baseball & football. He enjoys playing video games with friends and working out in the gym. Chris is hoping to pursue...

Rosemary Mancia is a 15-year-old girl who attends Birmingham Community Charter High School. She came from a small school and none of her close friends went to the same school as her. She had some people she knew from her old school...

Andrea Mendoza is a 16-year-old junior at Birmingham Community Charter High School. Andrea just started attending Birmingham in her junior year. Andrea was born and raised in Pasadena, California. She has two brothers, two step-brothers,...

Jesse Morales was born on March 8, 2007, in Van Nuys Hospital. For all four years of high school, Jesse Morales has been attending Birmingham. Jesse’s freshman year began right when schools began going back to real/live t...

Rodrigo Pelaez is a senior who is 17 years old and studies at Birmingham Community Charter High School. He loves all types of music and even stays traditional to his Peruvian background. He made his way to the U.S. at the age...

Daniela Vasquez is a 16-year-old sophomore at Birmingham Community Charter High School. Daniela was born in Central America and both her parents are Hispanic. Daniela is also an only child. She spends most of her time going o...

Julian Gomez is a sophomore at Birmingham Community Charter High School. He plays baseball for a travel ball team and his position is shortstop. His favorite baseball team is the Dodgers. Julian is an only child and he lives with...

Ethan Garcia is a 15-year-old sophomore at Birmingham Community Charter High School. He enjoys playing soccer and basketball. Ethan is currently playing for two soccer teams. Ethan lives in the San Fernando Valley and he enjoys...

Carmen is half Honduran and half Mexican and she understands and speaks Spanish. She lives with both her parents and her one older brother. She loves doing makeup and also long nails with designs. She loves listening to music an...

Justin is a 15-year-old sophomore at Birmingham Charter Community High School. This is his second year at Birmingham and he likes the school because he has learned a lot academically, and he has made many friends along the way...

Yaritzi Garcia is a 15-year-old sophomore who attends Birmingham Community Charter High School. She was born on December 9, 2008, in Mission Hills Hospital. She has lived in Van Nuys her whole life. She is Latina-Hispanic. Her mom...

Elijah Gamez would be someone you would want to be around because he's just so caring and nice but at the same time, he is the nicest person you could ever meet. He is also a family person and very into cars and sports. He is...

Jaylene is a sophomore at Birmingham Community Charter High School. This is her second year attending this school. In her first year at Birmingham, she came in with two of her closest friends and she met many new people during ...

Daniela Bustamante is a sophomore at Birmingham Community Charter High School. She was born on July 3, 2009. Daniela has a family of six, in which she is the youngest of four siblings, including one brother and two sisters. He...

Herik Flores Ruano was born on December 12, 2006, in Burbank, California. He is a senior attending Birmingham Community Charter High School (BCCHS) in Lake Balboa. Since Herik was a child, he always wanted to attend BCCHS--which h...

Moses Aguirre is a 15-year-old sophomore at Birmingham Charter High School. His favorite things to do in his free time are drawing, reading comics and mangas, playing soccer, and helping his friends out. Some of his favorite music...