Krystle Hernandez is a Upward Bound Project Advisor at Virginia Tech. Colleagues describe her as "Krystle is an exceptional advocate for mental health, and consistently provided children and adolescents with different therapeutic interventions throughout the school day as well as during spring and summer breaks. Throughout my time working with Krystle, she was consistently reliable, always being someone that could bear the weight of any responsibility given to her. Krystle is genuinely passionate and supportive of people, and would always seek out positive engagements with others, building great trust and rapport within her assigned school as well as other schools she would help cover when other staff were absent. Krystle possesses strong empathetic skills, consistently allowing others to feel validated in their feelings and challenging them to strive outside of their comfort zones to empower great change. Krystle would be a positive asset to any team, bringing a renewed sense of empathy to not only clients but anyone who has the pleasure of working with her."