In light of Brown’s transition to online learning, the U-FLi Center will be sharing narratives from the Class of 2020. We aim to affirm and honor graduating students’ time at Brown. Read about Rocio Nunez Pepen below:

What does it mean to you to be U-FLi?

Proud, accomplished, grateful.

Advice you’d give your first-year self?

Don’t compare your journey to anyone else’s. Feel proud that although you didn’t have the same resources as other peers, you made it to the same place.

Favorite memory at Brown?

Finding a friend that could finally understand my situation.

Who are you away from Brown/outside of the student identity? 

I am a caregiver, a proud daughter of two hardworking sanitation workers and a wife to my high school sweetheart.