Published on Thursday, August 28, 2008
By JESSICA SHILLINGS
SACRAMENTO - Banning native Anthony Sanchez never imagined he'd graduate from a prestigious college or work for a state senator.
Sanchez, a recent Stanford University graduate and 2008 Capitol Fellow, said that as a child he simply wanted to escape the poverty into which he and his four siblings had been born.
"Sometimes the system works," Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, said of Sanchez, a legislative aide. "You hope it will let a kid like Anthony succeed, and it did."
The one-time Banning kid, now 22, who made friends "stop a few blocks away so they couldn't see my house with boarded up windows," is a 2008 California Senate Fellow with the Capitol Fellows Program.
Capitol Fellows work 11 months as full-time staff for a legislative, executive or judicial office and receive a $1,972 monthly stipend.
Senate Fellow
About 350 recent college graduates apply each year and 18 are chosen for the Senate branch of the program
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