LYNN — Yuleika Lluveres has been chosen to represent the student body on North Shore Community College’s (NSCC) Board of Trustees.
“I’m pretty excited about what’s to come. I never thought I would be in a role like this,” said Lluveres, a Lynn resident. “I look forward to meeting my fellow trustees and more NSCC students. Working with the Student Government Association, one of our first courses of action will be to conduct a student survey to get student input on what’s important to them. Then I want to develop a calendar of goals to address areas of interest.”
Lluveres is studying health science and plans to become a respiratory therapist. She said she was inspired by her own experience with asthma, with which she was diagnosed at 2 years old.
Lluveres said she always knew what she wanted to do, but that her grades in high school were too low for other schools.
“When NSCC guidance counselors came to Lynn English to recruit, I applied, was accepted and now I feel like I am blooming like a flower,” she said. “I had been a shy student, but coming to NSCC and getting involved in student life has really opened doors for me.”
At NSCC, she joined the National Leadership Society, and became first its secretary and then president.
She hopes to use her position to get more Spanish-speaking students involved in the college.
“I’d like them to take advantage of the many opportunities the college offers so they can thrive and grow as I am,” she said.
