Rakitha Perera sits with his hands clasped in front of him.

Designing His Future

"So good" describes both the work ethic that helped earn Rakitha Perera one of the President's Classified Employee of the Year awards and his favorite karaoke song.

A graphic designer II, Rakitha Perera captured the second-place President's Classified Employee of the Year award for 2019. (Lonnie Timmons III/UNLV Creative Services)

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