When you look at his résumé, Fernando Mendoza doesn’t seem all that different from any other high-achieving twentysomething ready to make their mark on the world. In high school he was an elite student (4.86 GPA), class VP, campus ministry president, the honors program’s social media director and founder of a nonprofit that spreads awareness for youth in need.
He interviewed Miami’s mayor on a podcast he hosted and organized humanitarian efforts in Cuba. He could have gone to Yale, but instead earned a degree from Cal’s business school in three years and then got to work on an MBA. A few months ago he declared himself “open to work” on his LinkedIn profile.
