Daisy Mejia Perez founded the Leaders for Environmental Protection and Awareness (LEAP) Club. She had two primary goals: to provide socioeconomically disadvantaged students with service opportunities like cleaning up our local parks and streets, and to bring awareness to issues like climate change, endangered species, and the depleting biosphere as a whole. Receiving the Minerva Scholarship empowered her to follow her passion and curiosity for biology at University of California, Davis.