 I come from a first-generation background. I was the first in my family to go to college. Hi, my name is Terry Garcia and I am the Director of Inclusive Excellence in Student Success at the College of Nursing. So Project PAN is an acronym. It stands for Building Equitable Opportunities for Nursing Diversity. Dr. Garcia actually has helped me a lot. I had a really tough time last year, like second semester. Her door was always open and it's like when you go in to talk to her, you know that you have like a feeling of home. Without Project Beyond and Dr. Garcia especially, that my sophomore year and some of my junior year would have been very, very tough to finish. Dr. Garcia is making a huge difference in the attainability and equity of a nursing education as well as graduating nurses, more diverse nurses into the health care workforce. When Project Beyond started about 2006 or 2007, Project Beyond had 15 or so students and now we have currently around 140 students from diverse backgrounds. She has this amazing ability to stay positive in the face of challenges. She keeps us energized. We know this is the good work and we have to stay focused and just keep pressing forward. I want our students to be able to not experience what I did. I want them to be able to understand the importance of studying, understand the importance of an education and I also want to be able to grow the number of nurse leaders who are of color in our communities.