Mike Guillen is a native to the Los Angeles area and a 2023 graduate of Long Beach Polytechnic High School. He participated in Biola’s Read Well, Live Well program in the summer of 2022 where he learned the importance of putting thoughts provoked by books about social justice into action. His favorite reading in RWLW was “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” by Frederick Douglass. In the fall of 2023, Mike started at University of California Irvine where he plans to major in Social Policy and Public Service.