Gael Perez was Chief Executive for La Plaza Press. He attended Citrus Valley High School.

Perez was involved in cross country as well as Spanish Club. His favorite class was AP Human Geography because it expanded his perspective on how the world works.

Perez joined La Plaza to expand journalism from just English to many other languages to be represented within the communities of Redlands. Perez says that his favorite part of being in La Plaza was writing in Spanish because “writing in Spanish has a different meaning than just writing in English.”

Perez currently attends the University of California, Los Angeles.

His message to current journalism students is, “I am very proud of you.

Last updated 2021