High school honors its first Latino salutatorian | USA TODAY

Graduating with a full scholarship to Harvard, Roberto Quesada is proud to be the first Latino salutatorian at his Brooklyn high school.

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He met U.S. congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden.

He’s Harvard-bound and now, 18-year-old Roberto Quesada can say he is the first Latino salutatorian at his Brooklyn Technical High School in New York.

Quesada was accepted to Harvard, has a full scholarship and altogether, has also earned over $150,000 in scholarships through different organizations.

And he wasn’t the only one at Brooklyn Tech who made history. His classmate, Afifa Tanisa, became the first hijabi valedictorian and will attend Columbia University, majoring in applied mathematics. She also comes from an immigrant family, she told the school’s newspaper.

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