Garcia-Nieto began to believe that she could become a doctor, but everyone around her told her to give up that dream. When she asked her high-school counselor about college applications and revealed she was undocumented, her counselor offered this advice: “You just need to go back to Mexico.”
Professor Oteíza’s teaching is a prime example of finding the intersectionality between different – even seemingly opposite – disciplines like theater and the IDEAS program.
“Collective action is actually possible,” Bryant said, “this is something I learned from microbes.”
Usually when it comes to science and doing research, I will only bring the scientific aspect of myself, but at the conference, I was able to bring my whole self.
“I’m a people person,” Rodríguez remarked. “So, I’ve always enjoyed working with students, I get a lot of satisfaction from helping them put together their path [and] their plan.”
I’m the first Mexican—not even Mexican, the first Spanish speaker—in the MB&B grad school. So I didn’t have anyone with a similar experience as me. SACNAS for me is really a place where I can talk with people.
Please join us this Thursday for an exciting talk and meet and greet event with Dr. Maldonado Contreras, from UMass Chan Medical School.
It’s important to have people to tell you “you belong here,” especially in moments when it’s not easy to say it to yourself.
The manuscript developed by three undergraduate SACNAS chapter members has been published in the Journal Frontiers in Education.
