Mama, We Made It!

"Once you start meeting your true self half way, you'll have a much easier journey." Born in Cairo, Egypt, a Coptic Orthodox Egyptian, Youssef came to the US for religious reasons when he was six years old. His parents made the true "immigrant sacrifice" to spend their life savings to save their life. When arriving to the States, they moved around a lot, first living in Hancock Park, then later South Central. Youssef didn't speak English, or have the tools to communicate and express himself. This led to locking himself in the library, reading everything he could, to figure it out and survive. The once nice, gullible, naive kid, would soon become the troublemaker who wanted a story and adventure. However, Youssef was always very smart, and had a natural curious character, but never learned how to work hard. He would use being smart as a facade of a hard worker, and struggled with finding which direction to go in, and committing to one dream. He bounced around from physics to