June 2025 | Message from Fresno DRIVE Director Artie Padilla

Hello friends,

It’s the time of the year when graduations are abundant, and students are finishing one big chapter of their lives and getting ready for another. We celebrate with the thousands of students graduating from either elementary, middle school, high school, community college, or from our universities.

We are proud of you!  

With that in mind, we are highlighting two of DRIVE’s initiatives that focus on preparing our youth for the future, Next Gen Aviation and UCSF School of Medicine regional campus in Fresno. Both are amazing programs that elevate our students in medicine and aviation.  I’m sure you’ll be amazed, as we are, with the work they are doing.  

Thanks for your continual connection, 

Artie Padilla