Age: 30
Gender & Pronouns: cis female & she/her
Neighborhood: Downtown
Occupation: Owner of Last Call & Lawyer
Length of time in Anchorage: on and off for the past 20 years, but most recently 6 months
Faceclaim: Camila Mendes
Claudia Santos grew up with the perfect example of love. Her parents, both raised in Brazil, fell in love as teenagers and Claudia quickly followed. Neither came from a place of wealth or prosperity, but both had dreams of creating better lives for themselves. Her mother was the dreamer though - an anthropologist, top of her class, getting scholarships, and grants. Claudia’s father works small jobs to put her mother through school, all knowing this was their way to a beautiful life.
Claudia was 10 when her mother’s work brought them to Alaska. Her mother worked with native locals to work with the government on preservation. Her father quickly felt at home in a place he’d never imagined he’d be. Finding a job at a local bar and becoming very close with the old man who owned the place. And when that old man died, he left the bar to Claudia’s father. Her mom began traveling a lot to work, so Claudia spent a lot of time at the bar with her father.
Both of her parents taught her to dream big, to believe in herself without needing someone else to. She always did well in school, knowing she wanted to do something that helped people. When it came time deciding where to go to college, Claudia has a hard time deciding if she wanted to leave home to pursue her dreams, leaving her father when her mother was away so often.
Claudia went to her dream college University of Southern California with the intention of becoming a lawyer. 2 years into school her mother became pregnant again and during childbirth there were complications, causing her mother to pass. Claudia moved home, to help her father take care of a brand new baby.
Eventually, after 3 years, her father convinced her to reenroll in school in Alaska to continue living her life - seeing how much responsibility she was bearing in trying to help raise her brother. But Claudia didn’t go far for a long time.
Once finishing college, Claudia moved back to California to go to Law school in Berkley before getting a job as an immigration lawyer. She visited home when she could and talked to her brother and father constantly.
A few months back her father became ill. She dropped everything and moved back home to help her father are care of her brother and the bar.
