Viveca Stucke ’26
Features Editor
Name: Ruth Lopez Espinoza
Class Year: 2025
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Major: Political Science & Spanish with LALC concentration
Campus Activities: SGA Co-President, Secretary for DESI, Peer Mentor, Spanish Tutor, & Research Associate
Favorite Movie: How to Train Your Dragon
Favorite Song: “Paths” by NIKI [currently]
Favorite singer/group: The Marias
Favorite color: Green
Favorite sports team: The LA Dodgers!
Favorite class taken at Holy Cross: SPAN 499 “Writing the Short Story”
Item on HC Bucket List: Attend a Pub Night!
Embarrassing HC Moment: Texting my OSI group chat pictures that were meant for my SGA group chat
Bragging Rights: I speak 5 languages
Words to live by: “A rejection is a redirection” & “Mind over matter”
Favorite TV Show: The Unexplained
Favorite Book: Cien años de Soledad by Gabriel García Márquez
Favorite Kimball meal: Chicken Parm
Favorite Cool Beans Drink: Iced Matcha
Favorite spot on campus: Cafe Babel
Favorite off-campus restaurant: Bocado Tapas
Guilty Pleasure: Eat a KitKat chocolate bar
Some small things that make your day better: Hanging out with my friends
First thing you do when you wake up: Check my Google calendar
Last thing you do before going to bed: My skincare routine
Favorite place you have traveled to: London, UK or Merida, Mexico
Something you look forward to when you go home: Seeing my dog, Bambi, and spending time with my mom
Post-Graduation Plans: Attend graduate school and continue working as an assistant to the Associate Executive Director at the YMCA in Los Angeles
Featured image courtesy of Viveca Stucke ’26
Copy Edited by Caroline Kramer ‘26
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