My name is Vanessa Toro, and I am a second-year dental student at the University of Florida College of Dentistry. Before dental school, I attended Emory University, where I received a B.S. in Anthropology and Human Biology with a minor in Lusophone Studies. Throughout my undergraduate studies, I worked as a college advisor, high school mentor, and interpreting teacher. Specifically, I worked as a certified medical interpreter in local clinics in Atlanta, and I helped write and facilitate a Language Justice Initiative Curriculum for Communities in Schools of Atlanta. During my gap year, I worked on collecting data on how bilingual children learn in monolingual vs bilingual settings. As I have transitioned to my life here in Gainesville, I have found ways to become actively involved in the Hispanic-Latino community, such as serving as an interpreter when the University of Florida College of Dentistry provides free dental care to children in the Gainesville area. I also attend the UF Hispanic Student Dental Association educational events to learn more about the legalities of health care for documented and undocumented Hispanics-Latinos. I learned in my classes in dental school that the Hispanic community has one of the highest rates of caries in the United States and that the lack of health literacy, socioeconomic stability, and Hispanic dental providers may be playing a role. That is why I currently work as a mentor for the Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP). I work with students of disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds who express interest in a future career in health but might lack the resources to make it happen. I do this to help increase the number of underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds in the dental profession. My focus was and continues to be to help my Hispanic-Latino community, no matter where I am in my educational journey.