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Cristal Guerrero Gutierrez is requesting a teacher evaluation letter for her college application, highlighting her academic achievements in Public Health and her goal of becoming a veterinarian focused on wildlife conservation. She has been actively involved in various clubs and community service projects, demonstrating leadership and resilience in overcoming personal challenges related to her identity and mental health. Cristal is bilingual, tech-savvy, and committed to creating a safe environment for queer students.

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Recommendation Request Form Digitalized For Convenience

Cristal Guerrero Gutierrez is requesting a teacher evaluation letter for her college application, highlighting her academic achievements in Public Health and her goal of becoming a veterinarian focused on wildlife conservation. She has been actively involved in various clubs and community service projects, demonstrating leadership and resilience in overcoming personal challenges related to her identity and mental health. Cristal is bilingual, tech-savvy, and committed to creating a safe environment for queer students.

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Recommendation Request Form (Digitalized for convenience)

Student Name: Cristal (Cris) Guerrero Gutierrez

Student Phone #: (707) 849-3184 Student E-mail: [email protected]

Purpose of Letter: College Application (Teacher Evaluation)

Complete letter by: February 12

1) Classes had with this teacher: Public Health (Junior Year) Grade: A

Public Health (Senior Year) Grade: A (Fall semester)

2) Career and Academic Goals: I want to become a veterinarian, specifically one who treats wild

animals. My goal is to help with the conservation of endangered and threatened animal species.

3) Activities/Sports in High School:

10th grade: Debate Club (member), and California Scholarship Federation (CSF) (member)

11th grade: Debate Club (member), CSF (member), Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA)

(President)

12 grade: CSF (member), GSA (President), Theatre (actor)

4) Volunteer/community service projects:

10th grade: Volunteered at Forgotten Felines, Volunteered at the Windsor Historical Society

Polenta Dinner (plating food and washing dishes)

12th grade: Helped organized ‘Rainbow Day’ at Windsor High School

5) Work experience: None

6) Other interests/hobbies: Art (specifically drawing), reading books (currently read 29 books so

far this year), Interested in learning about Conservations and Clean Energy

7) List 4 words to describe yourself: Selfless, Studious, Remarkable, Outspoken


8) Specific skills, characteristics, attributes, or experiences that you would like mentioned in

your letter of recommendation?: I am bilingual, speaking and writing both English and Spanish

fluently. I am very well versed in google suite and computers. I have persevere through so much

and have continued to hold my head high. Being queer, while Windsor is a very accepting

community, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t have prejudice. I have battled internalized homophobia

and transphobia my whole life, but I am determined to change and create a safe community for

queer students such as myself.

9) Unusual or special personal/family circumstances that you feel have impacted your high

school career: As a Spanish-speaking household, it has been difficult having to figure out most

things by myself, as well as having to translate for my parents.

10) Challenges, frustrations, or hardships you encountered and how you overcame them: As

mentioned above, internalized homophobia and transphobia were something I have struggled

with. It was hard for me to come to terms with the fact that I am not straight or cisgender. That I

am part of the trans community and the gay community. I overcame this by surrounding myself

with other queer kids and learning that this is ok, that it is ok to be true to yourself. It also helped

that I left certain toxic communities that are transphobic and homophobic. I struggled with

trichotillomania since 8th grade. I would yank the hair out of my head, and then, later on, it

became so severe that I began to consume it as well. I was also struggling with an eating disorder

at the time, so all of these compiled into a huge mess that continued to bother me throughout 9th

grade. It took me confessing to a doctor and my therapist on what was happening to finally get

treated. I got the surgery done to remove the mass in my stomach and began to focus on how to

not pull hair in therapy. I am now much more healthy and can divert my full attention to school.

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