Apollinaire S. Mendoza is an international relations student at The Honors College in Miami Dade College. His work has stretched from teaching at Breakthrough Miami, to research with the Mellon-funded Humanities Edge initiative, and striving to find community solutions with Phi Theta Kappa. He is supported by his Cuban immigrant family who, with their love, pushed him toward museums of various subjects to find his interests. He found his passion in the paintings and stories of the figures that dotted the halls of natural history museums. While on television he discovered the world of diplomacy and politics with the speeches of Barack Obama and the geopolitics of China's Belt and Road. Apollinaire aims to make events, figures, and the story behind them more accessible to youth to create a more globally sensitive generation in the future.