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Our next Saturday Spotlight is… Lily Basta! Lily is a sophomore Writing for Film and Television with a minor in Creative and Cultural Industries. She is originally from Lexington, Massachusetts.

In high school, Lily worked on costumes for the theater department which is what sparked her love and passion for film. She also worked with horses and made a short documentary about them in her senior year of high school. Now, she is well-adapted to California and stays involved on campus through UPB, Chapman on Broadway, and the Chapman Swifities.
�Her biggest supporters are her family (especially her parents) and her friends. She feels very lucky to have met so many great people on campus. She looks forward to expanding her screenwriting craft through her feature classes. Her advice is to take life as it comes and to expect the unexpected!

This weeks Saturday Spotlight presents Mariana Velarde-Alvarez! She is currently a junior in the APEx Doctorate of Pharmacy program from San Diego, California! Mariana is the School of Pharmacy Senator in SGA, involved in student government in middle and high school. She is also a supervisor for Chapman's Phone-A-Thon.

Mariana's freshman year roommate, Chelsee, has been her best friend since the day they met. Chelsee is also a stem major so they really support and understand each other and help each other through their struggles! Mariana hopes to matriculate into the pharmacy school and build great connections with her friends, professors, and faculty over at the Rinker Campus! Her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega, has become a really great way to get out of my pharmacy program.

Mariana's advice: "Take things one day at a time! It's really easy to get overwhelmed when we view things as a whole, so I say take things as you go!"

This Saturday's Spotlight is... Abbey Graham! Abbey is a first-year Business Administration major from Denver, Colorado. She was able to achieve a 4.0 in her very first semester at Chapman, learned how to juggle, and became a member of the Circus Committee in Chapman's Juggling Club along with Gamma Phi Beta! Her lacrosse team has been a huge help and support to her.

After a great first semester, she hopes to bring the good vibes into this semester bye keeping her 4.0, work hard through her lacrosse season, and get more involved on campus. She's also looking forward to figuring out what she wants to minor in. So far, she is thinking possibly Business Entertainment or Film.

For our next Saturday Spotlight, we have Valeria Evereth! Valeria is a first-year double-major in Studio Art and Spanish from Pacoima, California.

Valeria has received various honors throughout high school including arts and academic honors. She also received sports honors, earning three medals in tennis for playing Varsity and winning two trophies. She was awarded for her volunteer work by the city council for supporting the cleaning up the streets of her city.

Valeria says that her friends, family, and various teachers were all very supportive and helpful to her accomplishments in high school. She also highlighted the faculty at Chapman who continue to support her in her various goals. Valeria hopes to graduate in the next few years and strives to become a teacher in the field of the arts. She also hopes to travel the world supporting marginalized and underrepresented populations around the globe.

Valeria wanted to share the advice with others that "It is important to try things out and not say no when opportunities come up!"