Jacob Macaluso

University of Colorado Boulder - 2027

Youth Mentoring, Affordable Housing

Issue(s) of focus: Youth Mentoring/Affordable Housing

Major: Accounting

Project: I want to help nonprofit schools as an academic advisor when it comes to applying for scholarships, deciding which colleges they want to attend, and how to apply to them, helping them transition to their next chapter in life.

Inspiration: My parents own a charter school and they always talk about how their students don’t really know what they want to do when it comes to finishing school and it’s because no one is showing them what there is. Also during my high school years, I had an advisor who would send weekly scholarships and college recommendations and I felt it helped me understand what I wanted once I finished school.

Future Goals: What I hope to accomplish is helping kids understand a path when it comes to finishing high school and opening their eyes to all the amazing resources that are out there that they don’t know of. So they to can have the chance to go to college and do it the right way with help.