Carlos Paz: Chief of staff, Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.)

USA TODAY - For more and to sign up click here Mike Lillis Carlos Paz was a 20-something community organizer in his hometown of Houston when he took "a little detour" overseas that would shape his thinking and help steer him to Capitol Hill. The project, called Operation Change, took Paz to more than a dozen countries in 18 months — places as diverse as Haiti, Tanzania, India and Papua New Guinea — as part of a…