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Mariana Lopez Baez has won the 2024 Albee Aryel Fellowship Award. She is graduating December 7, 2024 from the University of Nevada, Reno, with a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology. Mariana is headed for graduate school to train to…

The Cummins Engine Foundation has awarded Every Mind Matters a $5,000 grant to support the Fellowship program. “We are very grateful to the Cummins Engine Company and its Foundation for supporting our mission,” Executive Director Ron Aryel said. “We throw…

Senor Tequila’s Mexican Kitchen and Cantina hosted a fundraiser for Every Mind Matters on Tuesday May 13, 2025, that raised over $4,000.00. Many thanks to our gracious hosts, restauranteurs Johanna and Mario Jimenez for the excellent food, and to Reno…

Jafeth E. Sanchez, Ph.D, the Director of the Latino Research Center (LRC) at the University of Nevada, Reno, is the recipient of Every Mind Matters’ first Champion Award. Dr. Sanchez understood very early the value of our work and offered…

Gisselle Cruz has been elected to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society’s chapter at the University of Nevada, Reno. Phi Kappa Phi admits top-performing students studying business and engineering. Every Mind Matters congratulates Gisselle on her election.

In October of 2025, faculty at the Orvis School of Nursing at the University of Nevada, Reno contacted Every Mind Matters with an urgent request for assistance: a nursing student was in serious trouble, and could we please help? Marissa…

Marissa Martinez is a student at the University of Nevada, Reno Orvis School of Nursing. Marissa has overcome abject poverty, homelessness, a chaotic family environment and personal tragedies in her pursuit of her passion to help others. “As a first-generation…

Ana Reyes is a senior at the University of Nevada’s Orvis School of Nursing, a first-generation student whose parents are from Mexico. Ana’s journey to higher education was exceptionally difficult. When her father had to return to Mexico because to…