09/18/2026
Meet our BLMI Mentors for the 2026-27 Academic Year!
Freddy Jesse Izaguirre is a Nawa-Pipil & Salvadoran filmmaker who grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He is a Film major with a concentration in Screenwriting and one of the Mellon Transfer Student Research Fellows. Freddy is passionate about the arts, Indigenous/migrants rights, and social justice. His images and essays have been published in GEN, PAPER, LEVEL, among other venues, and included with Caravan for the Children, which was later displayed as an exhibit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA. Freddy is beyond thrilled to be a peer mentor this year, and looks forward to working with students to maximize their potential and reach their goals.
Carlos Alberto Villacres is a proud Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian senior majoring in Health and Nutrition Sciences with a 3.9 GPA. As a former BLMI mentee turned mentor, he is passionate about helping students succeed academically, develop leadership skills, and build a strong sense of community. Carlos serves as President of the Public Health and Medicine (PHaM) Club, a USG Senator, and Student Disciplinarian, where he advocates for student wellness, food security, and equitable access to resources. After graduation, he plans to pursue a master’s degree in Food Equity and continue advancing public health and food justice through community leadership.
Orese Moses was born in Trinidad and came to the U.S. in 2014. As a senior, he now has a clearer vision of what he wants out of college that he did not have before. Watching his parents work two jobs just to provide taught him the importance of time management and commitment. He continued because he didn’t really have a backup. At a young age, he always had an entrepreneur mindset, including starting his own shoe business during quarantine, which made him think business was for him. Through all his trials and tribulations of learning what was for him, Orese learned how much alignment matters while being yourself at all times. The places you put yourself into and the impression you leave with people will stay forever. Orese wants to teach the incoming college generation and show them what a true netwo
