Category: Testimonios
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Testimonios: Dr. Tatiana Toro
Early Life The family. My father’s family is from Antioquia, a department in northwest Colombia, lying mostly within the Andes mountains and extending toward the Caribbean Sea. The paisas [1] in my family are mestizos [2] mostly of Spaniard descent. My father, Gabriel Toro, is one of ten siblings. He grew up on a farm,…
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Testimonios: Dr. Roberto Soto
My Parents The story always begins with my parents, Carlos y Maricruz. They immigrated from Guatemala in the 1970s and were looking for opportunity, both for themselves and for the children they hoped to have one day. And indeed, by 1990 they had five children, two boys and three girls, of whom I am the…
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Testimonios: Dr. Hortensia Soto
In the Beginning I want to begin with the story of Agustin Soto and Sara Ramírez, my parents, because their journey, their struggles, their sacrifice, and their work ethic molded me into the person I am today. It’s important that I apologize to my parents because I am omitting their life experiences that occurred before…
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Testimonios: Dr. Angel Ramón Pineda Fortín
The Grandmothers (Abuelitas) My personal mathematical story begins with two women who changed our family history. They supported their children to be educated in ways that no one in their family had been before. My maternal grandmother (abuelita Amada) was a single mom who raised two daughters (my aunt Gloria and my mother, Guadalupe). Abuelita…
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Testimonios: Dr. Stephan Ramon Garcia
According to certain metrics, I am a highly successful mathematician. In 2019, I was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and was awarded the inaugural AMS Dolciani Prize for Excellence in Research (see the photo on page 125). I have been on the editorial boards of well-known journals and written over a hundred…
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