By Noah Golden – Staff Reporter

Angel Santiago is a very active member within the Jonathan Law community. Santiago is the president of the Class of 2021. He volunteers his time for the Key Club and is the public relations director and plays tennis and football. Advocate Staff Reporter Noah Golden interviewed Santiag about his busy schedule.

NG: What motivated you to become class president?

AS: At first for the freshman office, I didn’t see change. I just wanted change.

NG: What will you be doing as class president?

AS: We are gonna be planning the ring dance, we’re gonna try to be making that as fun as possible. I’ve had the opportunity to go to the Lauralton Hall ring dance and see how they did it. I saw what they did well and what they didn’t do well. I’m going to use that to my advantage to make it really fun. We have a bunch of ideas out such as a suggestion box outside of Mr Boynton’s room. Students can suggest to us what they want to see happen, so that we can really get everyone’s voice and opinions in our meetings rather than assuming what people think.

NG: Why do you go so hard with everything? I know you play football and tennis and all of this stuff with Key Club, so why?

AS: A big part of it is that I want to go to a good school. I want to do that for a while. Law is the place I go to school, the place I get my education. I get a lot of opportunities. I get to play with the team I love. They give me a lot of opportunities so I just want to give back to the Law community. That’s why I do the Key Club and that’s why I am a part of the Student Council and all of that.

NG: What do you do in Key Club? Like, what is your position?

AS: I am the public relations director. I am also the sophomore and freshman officer. That means that I am in charge of all freshmen and sophomores in Key Club. If they have questions, they come to me. Public relations director basically means, for example, we are doing a fundraiser for the Thirst Project and it is my job to get people outside of the Key Club to donate. That would be the Keyettes or the Milford Bank. I got to sit down with the New Haven Register and talk with them. It is actually published on their website now.

NG: Now that we know what you do in school, what do you do outside of school?

AS: Lucas Greifzu and I do a documentary every year. It’s called National History Day. It’s where we do a documentary based on something in history. I like to volunteer with the Boys and Girls Club. I did volunteering with the Pumpkins on the Pier. I will just go there and help out however I can whenever they need me because they usually don’t get too many volunteers, especially this year.