Jean Carlos Soto, a life-long Bronx resident, is a recent Macaulay Honors alumnus from Lehman College, with a B.A. in English and Latin. He is a writer, a poet, and has served as editor in chief of Lehman College's Literary and Arts Magazine (Obscura) as well as section editor for Lehman's campus-wide newspaper (The Meridian). He is currently a writing and language tutor at Lehman's Academic Center for Excellence.