Riverside. with a chemistry major and research honors. Then a miracle occurred. President Obama issued an Executive order called DACA and Everardo Arias was given a chance to sign up for protection with this Presidential order and he did. After he received this DACA protection. Everardo worked for 1 year as a mentor for atrisk kids in his own hometown of Costa Mesa. The following year. through AmeriCorps. Everardo worked as a health educator with seven local clinics. volunteering and working through AmeriCorps with some of the poorest people in his community. During his year as a health educator. he decided now. with the protection of DACA. to apply to go to medical school. Everardo Arias is in his first year at Loyola University in Chicago. Stritch School of Medicine. He is one of seven protected by DACA who had a chance to go to school. but there is a catch. Loyola University said: You can go to medical school here. but for every year you are in medical school. you have to promise to give 1 year of your professional life working with the poorest people in my home State of Illinois. in small towns and rural areas as well as big cities. and he agreed to it. He has a giving. caring heart.