“It is something I always keep in the back of my head,” says Mazo, who carries a 96.8 academic average and is a member of several honor societies, “because growing up there, you didn’t always see the best things, you didn’t always see kids from your school end up in the best circumstances, so for me it was setting an example. It’s a great feeling for teachers I’ve had to say, ‘she went to school here,’ so I don’t want to change, take a wrong turn.”