Carolina Alonso is a 17 year old senior at Roosevelt High School. She speaks both English and Spanish Carolina grew up in Portland and lives in the Northeast area. She is a very active member of the Roosevelt community by being the captain of the soccer and basketball teams, as well as editor of the school yearbook. She lives by the motto, “do hard things” and in five years she sees herself graduated from college with a political science degree. For the past two years, Carolina has participated in Roosevelt’s slam poetry competition which forced her to step outside of her comfort zone.