Priscilla Contreras is a 2022 graduate of UW–Madison, where she majored in education studies and gender and women’s studies. Coming from Chicago, she preferred a university that offered a city vibe, and after going on a campus tour and seeing the Terrace, she was set on going to the UW. Initially, she started college as a prenursing student, reporting that she felt family pressure as a first-generation college student to pursue a career that was either in medicine or law. Fortunately, she learned that choosing a career should not rely on expected income but instead on what one is passionate about. For Priscilla, that was working in education. Like many other students, she felt that the only job she could do in education was teaching. After working as a tutor for middle schoolers, she experienced a career crisis because she knew that she did not want to work with kids. While she was trying to find the right career for her, she participated in several organizations on campus. She was a scholar and peer mentor for the Center for Educational Opportunity, programming cochair for the Latine Student Union, and cultural awareness cochair for Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc. It was through those experiences, jobs on campus, and conversations with her advisers that she decided to work in higher education. She is now working as an adviser for the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) and is a part-time graduate student in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis’s higher education master’s degree program at UW–Madison. Working for CAE has provided Priscilla with much fulfillment because she feels that she is giving back to communities that previously supported her own collegiate success and development. She is witnessing how valuable programs such as CAE and the Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion are to the success and retention of students of color attending a predominantly white institution. She has also been reflecting on her own experience as an undergraduate student and recognizing the importance of campus involvement. She hopes to push all her students to join at least one student organization. Finally, through having wonderful mentors such as Rachelle Eilers from the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program and Kimberly Vue ’18 from the Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence, her biggest piece of advice to students and alumni is to find a mentor in your career field, preferably someone who shares similar identities/experiences as you. Having these mentors in her life has helped her overcome imposter syndrome once again in her first full-time job.