Let's Talk About: An Interview with Glickman Prize Award Winner, Karina Aguilar Guerrero
The Priscilla Glickman '92 Memorial Prize is awarded to a Princeton senior who has demonstrated independence and imagination in the area of community service, seeks knowledge and purposeful adventure in unfamiliar cultures, and maintains strong academic work. The prize commends the qualities of curiosity in the world and commitment to the betterment of the world by recognizing outstanding past contributions to community service. The prize is awarded to encourage the student recipient to explore new challenges in the future. The prize winner is announced annually at Class Day.
Senior Karina Aguilar Guerrero, of Ontario, California, is the 2020 recipient of the Priscilla Glickman ’92 Memorial Prize, given each year to a Princeton senior who has demonstrated independence and imagination in the area of community service, seeks knowledge and purposeful adventure in unfamiliar cultures, and maintains strong academic work. A Spanish and Portuguese major with a certificate in Latin American Studies, Guerrero is committed to supporting first-generation, lower-income students and advocating for the Latinx community. She has held leadership positions with the Scholars Institute Fellows Program (SIFP), which supports first-generation, lower-income students at Princeton; HomeWorks Trenton, an afterschool boarding program for high school girls in Trenton, NJ; and served as co-director of Princeton Students for Immigrant Empowerment, a student organization with the John H. Pace, Jr. ’39 Center for Civic Engagement. In addition, Guerrero led logistics planning and execution for IvyG, a conference for first-generation, lower-income students across the U.S. Both on campus and off, Guerrero is dedicated to enhancing access, mentoring underserved students, and building community.
