PEDRO IS A 20 YEAR OLD graphic designer currently studying at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has an extensive history in the arts showing in over 20 group shows while studying at The Chicago Academy for the Arts and The Marwen Foundation. After completing high school at a rigorous arts academy, Pedro spent a year at The Kansas City Art Institute with as Kansas City Art Institute Ambassadorial Scholar, a Marwen Foundation Scholar, and a Mercy Home for Boys and GIrls Scholar, earning over $30,000 in scholarship support. After completing his foundations year at KCAI, Pedro moved on to continue his studies in one of the most inspirational cities of the world under the instruction of leading designers teaching at The School of Visual Arts.

In 2009, Pedro wrote that:
"Form, color, line, and value are seen everywhere but when used for commercial purposes they create a need within me to study it, question it, and create something new from my gathered thoughts. Walking down any street in Chicago, I am constantly confronted with typography, design and advertising. They all exist in the window displays down State Street, in the subway cars, and countless other places, but when I really look I find myself discovering those elements in the most unexpected places. This is what draws my inspiration. Essentially, cities are what drive me to create. This is why I have always pictured myself studying in New York City. Particularly, what draws me to SVA is the sense of possible commercialism and the creativity and discipline I have seen on my visit there, not to mention the vast resources."

While living at MHBG, Pedro was able to escape his south side neighborhood and became extremely inspired by what he saw and experience while living in Chicago's West Loop area. In 2010, Pedro was accepted as sophomore at The Chicago Academy for the Arts under two merit scholarships from CAA and MHBG. Studying the arts was always Pedro's goal. Being exposed to such a possibility at the academy and Mercy Home, Pedro was able to work through such obstacles of depression, suicide, self-mutilation, and family conflict, at an early age, causing his success as a commercial artist to be the number one goal that drove his everyday. During such early years, Pedro experienced designing an exterior for a NASCAR racer for Cub Cadet, driven by Bobby Labonte. He also was one of 5 youth to travel to Portland, Maine with The Apprentice winner Bill Rancic as a volunteer with Ace Hardware to rebuild A Company for Girls, he took a part in the Marwen Foundation's Artward Bound, spending a week in New York studying art leading him to summer internship at Motorola's Design studio in Chicago working on the Android line.