Janessa Garcia is a strong academic achiever who credits family, including grandparents from Mexico, with providing encouragement to not only go to college, but to work toward a PhD. An accomplished honor’s student and McNair scholar, the psychology and women’s and gender studies major also will be recognized as Roosevelt’s 2019 student laureate by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in Springfield on Nov. 16. “My grandparents and my parents made incredible sacrifices so that all of us in the family, including my 12 cousins, could attain more than my grandparents were able to achieve,” said Garcia, 21, who is a 2016 graduate of Whitney Young High School. The Roosevelt student who wants to become a psychology professor and clinician recently presented findings of a study that attempts to makes sense of sexual double standards.   With an aim of doing research after graduation on violence against women, Roosevelt’s new student laureate is currently applying to graduate and PhD programs around the country.