Carlos Herrera, a senior, is on the staff of The Mirror, the award-winning student newspaper and website at Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles. For fun, he plays quarterback for the Van Nuys High School football team and likes to listen to hip-hop music and hang out with friends. He is from Guatemala and usually tends to visit there, where he has a wide variety of family, including his mother. He plans to move to San Diego and attend San Diego State University or UC San Diego to pursue a future in engineering or forensics.