Allison Romero : How would you describe yourself?

Tiffany Sanchez : I would describe myself as kind, most definitely kind. I think I’m dedicated to things and volunteering in school.

AR: What encouraged you to join Miss Cardinal?

TS: I wanted to be in the Miss Cardinal pageant because I really wanted to open up to different people about ways that they can help their community, and multiple different ways I want to do good for the environment. I want to help people.

AR: So if you win, what impact will you try to make?

TS: So I already feel that I make an impact on my daily life, but I feel like it would make even more of an impact being Miss Cardinal because I’d be able to have more resources and out branch to help others, and they can all see me as a person that they can come to to talk to, or someone that they just need as a friend, or someone that, you know, maybe that they just want to cry on, or something I’ll be there.

AR: What makes you different from the other young women or men competing today?

TS:I really like managing, like having leadership goals. I aspire for people to be themselves, and I show that through the colors of my hair and random things, and I feel like I do a good job in applying myself in different aspects of life. I’m able to understand what people go through. I’m able to help people who need help. Not that anybody else can’t, but I feel like I have a special connection with a lot of the students here at San Bernardino High, and I do believe that I could make a really good impact for the school.

AR:  What’s something you’re looking forward to after finishing high school?

TS: I want to major in social work, so I can work with kids and teens and help them in need with a lot of different things, especially mental health and just a lot of the things that a lot of kids don’t have access to.

AR:What are you planning to study?

TS: I want to major in social work. I want to study music too, with the vocal arts.

AR: So where do you see yourself in five years?

TS: In five years, I see myself majoring in social work. I’m not 100% sure which route I want to go after social work, but I know I want to go to college and I want to major, and maybe I’ll go to school.

AR: Since when are you involved in choir?

TS:  I’ve been in choir for about nine years. I’ve been in since elementary school, and I’m in the varsity choir my freshman year. I’ve been in the varsity choir. I’m also in the District Honor Choir.

AR:What do you do as a representative in choir? 

TS: Basically, I help keep everybody on task. I help them with their music. If they need help going over the national anthem, I can pitch them a key and I can help them do that. I help plan fundraising stuff.

AR: What’s something important you have done for the community?

TS: I’ve done a few good things, I would say I volunteered at maybe more than 30 different drives, homeless drives, back to school drives for kids in need, mental health drives, hygiene drives.

AR: What’s something you’re planning to do for the community?

TS:  I’m not exactly sure on how to answer that, but I do believe that I want to do something through Kaiser, because my mom works through Kaiser, and I do a lot of the fundraising and a lot of the stuff through them. 

AR: If you could go to any part of the world, where would it be and why?

TS: I would go to New York. I’ve always had the dream of going to New York with my mom and I love the buildings. Like, I love LA, all the big buildings remind me that, no matter how big your dream is, you can always reach them. That was always like me and my mom’s favorite motto.

AR: What’s your favorite memory?

TS: My favorite memory was meeting my brother for the first time. I was an only child for 15 years, and my mom got me a little brother, and I was like, I don’t want a boy. And the first day I saw him, I just, like, I felt so different. I already felt like that big sister protection. So I was like, oh yeah.

AR: What’s something important parents should tell their children?

TS: Something important that parents should tell their children is, no matter what you go through, you will always have someone by your side.