Jannet Esmeralda Gomez is a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Political Science with a concentration in race, ethnicity, and politics, and minoring in Asian Cultures and Languages. She credits her background as the daughter to once-undocumented immigrants and her upbringing in a low-income city in Los Angeles as the main inspiration for her academic and research interests. Her research focuses on how undocumented immigrants politically mobilize in the United States. With the help of her faculty mentor, Professor Natalie Masuoka, Jannet’s project explores what motivating factors have or have not encouraged undocumented individuals to increase their visibility in the political stage. The William M. Ortega and Rosalind W. Alcott scholarships are supporting her academic career. In the future, she hopes to pursue a doctorate in Political Science.