Alumni Door County Profile: Johnny Gomez – Door County Pulse

A grand pursuit of the American Dream brought Johnny Gomez 5,500 miles from Nicaragua to Sevastopol School, where he graduated in 2015. (And UW-Green Bay a few years later). His journey to graduation was far from ordinary, and his story – which is still being written – is already enormously inspiring.Gomez was born to Nicaraguan parents, Octavio and Vera, and grew up in Managua, Nicaragua. Gomez credits his parents for their dedication to their family and their hard work to provide a quality life for him and his brother and sister.“My surroundings were very, very poor,” Gomez said. “It was pretty much struggling with what you would be eating in the next week. There were some unhealthy neighborhoods and troublemaking, but I saw the examples of my parents, and they were always working very, very hard.”

Source: Alumni Door County Profile: Johnny Gomez – Door County Pulse