Lizzandro Zirate is a 23-year-old student at Fresno city college who was born on July 23, 2002, in

Fresno, CA. He is currently majoring in journalism, where he is in his final year at FCC. He likes

to spend time with his family and friends, play video games, and watch sports though he prefers

combat sports like the UFC instead of traditional sports like soccer and football.

He decided to give college a chance in 2023 at age 20 due to not knowing what to do in life after

graduating high school in 2021 and taking a break. For the first year he didn’t know what to

major in so he just took General Ed classes as a way to pass time till he figured out what to go

for. Whilst registering for classes he decided to give journalism 1 a chance as he thought it would

be an interesting class to take, while taking the class he decided to major in journalism as he

thought the class was fun and very informative and taught him a lot about the media.

Lizzandro is motivated by his family and friends who encourage him to go for something that he

feels comfortable doing, which he says makes him perform better in his work and motivates him

to not give up on himself.

One interesting fact about Lizzandro is he is the first one in his family to go to college and will

be the first to graduate, which he hopes encourages his younger siblings to give it a try even if

they don’t think that it is for them.