Kaia Finn (Mira Costa High School Class of 2025) & her mother actress and licensed therapist Rosa Blasi have participated in a variety of charitable causes, philanthropic endeavors and volunteer works for over a decade. As Kaia started to actively seek out her own areas of philanthropy that most interested her, she noticed an influx of requests from many friends and families (from various local communities and different public and private schools) that started to ask her for help in seeking out their own volunteer opportunities. The idea for Student Volunteer Connect began, and it became Kaia’s passion to collect and research the information, vet the organizations, and create a platform to connect other similarly aged students to these valuable and sometimes life- changing volunteer experiences.