Nate Salazar remembers his mother often telling him…

“Mijo, education is the one thing that no one can take away from you.”

As a former student in the Salt Lake City School District, a Bryant and East High alumnus, he has not forgotten where he comes from. Raised in the East Central neighborhood, he chose to buy a home only six blocks from his childhood house.

“I grew up in Precinct 4 and after graduate school, I knew I wanted to come back home and build up the neighborhood that built me.”