Lucais Romo isn’t shy about saying it: Family, Career and Community Leaders of America changed his life.

“Every kid kind of goes through this phase where they don’t really know who they are, and sometimes they spend a little too long not looking in the mirror, metaphorically or literally,” said Romo, who recently graduated from Southern Regional High School to pursue a degree in biomedical engineering at Drexel University. “But I know who I am now.