Arez grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado to a family of Iraqi-Kurdish immigrants. Staying in his home city, he attended Colorado College and graduated in 2025 with a double major in Computer Science and History. His vision for community change has always been to give back to his local Colorado Springs community and to the Kurdish Community. For the past three years, he has been in involved with Educating Children of Color (ECOC), a large educational non-profit in Colorado Springs. He currently sits on the Board of Directors and manages the SAT tutoring program. As the son of immigrants, he knows how it feels to have an information gap; to be unaware of what you are missing out on simply because you don’t know any better. He is working towards rectifying that gap for students in his local community, which drives him to community change.
Additionally, Arez is currently working on getting his undergraduate thesis published, which contains novel Kurdish documents that have never been analyzed in prior historical works. His joy in life is to keep learning. Greenhouse has supported him endlessly in this, helping him inquire about potential opportunities he never would’ve considered and opening doors for him to expand my horizons whether entrepreneurial, educational or personal.
