TATIANA TORRES HAD everything stacked against her. She spent most of her time in high school learning from home after an accident left her with persistent headaches and sensitivity to light.
She had just returned to Heritage High School in Brentwood full-time when the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools. Despite these challenges, she will transfer this fall as a junior to UC Berkeley to major in political science. She had completed her general education credits in just one year at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg.
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