{"id":1918,"date":"2022-01-11T18:59:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:21:04","slug":"crystal-velasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/crystal-velasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know Crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/11\/Crystal_Velasco.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal Velasco\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crystal Velasco<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Counselor, Assistive Technology Specialist<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Past Education highlights: <\/b>Master\u2019s Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from SDSU, Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Psychology from North Park University in Chicago<br><b>Favorite Quote: <\/b>Nothing is impossible. The word itself say <q>I\u2019m possible<\/q> &#8211; Audrey Hepburn<br><strong>What I most love about the DRC:<\/strong> \u00a0I love the incredible camaraderie amongst the DRC team and how much each team member cares about the students and their success!<br><strong>One thing I have learned over the pandemic:<\/strong> I\u2019ve learned the importance of social connection and how much harder it can be to achieve but when it is experienced, it can be so healing and beautiful.<br><strong>What does a campus or world built with UDL at the forefront look like:<\/strong> Equitable and happy!<br><strong>Something else about me:<\/strong> I love spicy food, the burn my lips and cry, type of spicy\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crystal Velasco Counselor, Assistive Technology Specialist Past Education highlights: Master\u2019s Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from SDSU, Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Psychology from North Park University in ChicagoFavorite Quote: Nothing is impossible.&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/crystal-velasco\/\">Continue Reading<span> Get to know Crystal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drc-faculty-staff-spotlight"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg2IzD-uW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14732,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/14732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}