6/11/2023 0 Comments Iobserve celebrating success![]() “I felt that the best way to honor him was to continue with school.” “My dad was such an advocate for education,” said Brito. So, he dug deep into his schoolwork and hung on tight to his dad’s aspirations for him. It was hard to push through the grief, but his education and future as an engineer were so important to his father. “He was there for parent conference meetings, tried to get us into honors and Magnet programs, and encouraged us to strive to be straight-A students.”Īfter his passing, Brito had to make a choice: take a leave of absence or continue school. “He knew education was the key to being able to elevate ourselves from poverty.” Christopher Merino Brito. “This was the root of his aspirations for my brother and me in school since he knew education was the key to being able to elevate ourselves from poverty,” said Brito, whose brother, Cristian, earned a degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Settling down in Los Angeles, he supported Brito, his mom and his brother by working various jobs, including as an auto shop custodian. and started a family with Brito’s mother, Veronica, who he had met in Mexico. She worked long hours in the fields to provide for the large family, leading Brito’s father and his brothers to find work at a young age.ĭespite leaving school at age 13, his dad eventually made it to the U.S. His own father had died in a tragic horse accident when he was an infant, leaving his single mom raised him and his siblings. “I think that was one of the hardest times, just focusing on all my courses and trying to process what had happened.”īrito’s dad Bernardo grew up the youngest son of eight children in Santa María Zacatepec, a small village in Oaxaca, Mexico. “It didn’t help that it was during COVID either it was very isolating,” said Brito. He had just been admitted to USC Viterbi’s computer science program and was preparing to start his first internship at Microsoft when his father died suddenly of a heart attack. In December 2021, Christopher Merino Brito was on a high. Christopher Merino Brito was born and raised in South Los Angeles, just four miles from USC.
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