Diego Soto Lopez is a rising Senior at Deerfield Academy who aspires to become an aerospace engineer. In addition to his studies, he has taken an engineering course at San Diego Mesa College and has also served his community by providing feedback on transportation solutions for the 2021 SANDAG Regional Plan through the Urban Collaborative Project. He has also served on San Diego City's Youth Commission, where he was appointed by Mayor Todd Gloria. Deigo attended the APA National Planning Conference in 2022, speaking about his and his peers' efforts to help make his community a better place to live.  Diego also participated in a walk audit with Circulate San Diego to identify traffic calming measures on 47th Street, Diego noticed the need for a clean-up and organized the Scholars Clean-Up to ensure that his peers had safe paths to school. He enjoys finding ways to help both his peers and the community.