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Cory McCullough was at the skate park, watching several of his and his fiancée Ashley's six children roll around.While taking a break from studying sound wave propagations, he explained how he had become a UC Merced Ph.D. candidate, a Merced College mathematics instructor, a convicted felon, a father and a drug addict, all by age 33.

Merced College alumna Nicole Silveira feels at her best inside a courtroom. The current Supervising Deputy District Attorney of Merced County appreciates the challenges — the professional one that sizes up her prosecutorial skill, and the personal one that sizes up her fight.

Taylor Brown has wanted to serve as an elected official since she was in elementary school.Something about watching her mother Christie bring history to life, reading books about Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. and other historical figures, has filled her with the hunger to chase public office.

Sara Friedman completed 22 units this past semester to finish her B.A. in Psychology at Fresno State.Taking on 22 units in one semester might seem insane for anyone, but not for a U.S. Coast Guard veteran, former chef, Merced College alumnus, 40-year-old, single mother of two. Right?