Ricardo Perez, a student at the University of South Florida in Tampa, takes classes at the Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications and expects to graduate in fall of 2022 with a degree in Mass Communications, Broadcast Program and Production concentration. A native of upstate New York, his family moved to Florida when he was only 3. He grew up mainly in the Wesley Chapel area and attended Wesley Chapel High School, which offered a TV Production program that started his passion for broadcasting.