Aris mendoza biography
Originally from Chicago, Aris Mendoza fell in love with performing while studying dance and movement as a child.
She trained in ballet, jazz, and hip-hop and soon ventured into the world of theater.!
From High Jump to Hollywood: An Interview with Aris Mendoza, Cohort 10
Since its inception, High Jump’s emphasis has not been to put students on a specific path towards a specific definition of success, but to instead empower them with the experiences and resources to forge their own paths and their own definitions of success.
Over the course of the past two and half decades since she was in the program, Aris Mendoza has trailblazed her own path from a young Chicago middle schooler fascinated by and passionate about literature and the arts, to a working actress in Hollywood and, now, to a successful writer developing a number of projects including writing and producing an adaptation of Sandra Cisneros’s seminal Chicago coming-of-age novel, The House on Mango Street.
Aris, keynote speaker for High Jump’s 2024 Spring of Opportunity Benefit, recently sat down to talk with us about her journey from High Jump to Hollywood, what led her to pivot from her acting career t
