Category: Testimonios
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Testimonios: Dr. Carrie Diaz Eaton
Early Life I grew up straddling worlds. I was born and raised in Warwick, RI, a couple miles from Providence. My mom was also born in Warwick, RI, but my dad was born about 3700 miles away in Lima, Peru. My dad, Hugo Evaristo Díaz Mendizábal, was the second oldest of nine children. He would…
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Testimonios: Dr. Jessica M. Deshler
Family and Identity My mother, Clara, was the third of four siblings and the first in her family to go to college. She enrolled at the University of Albuquerque (no longer in existence) right after high school, earned her associate’s degree in nursing and began working immediately. My father was from Texas, worked for the…
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Testimonios: Dr. Ricardo Cortez
Testimonios is edited by Pamela E. Harris, Alicia Prieto-Langarica, Vanessa Rivera Quiñones, Luis Sordo Vieira, Rosaura Uscanga, and Andrés R. Vindas Meléndez and illustrated by Ana Valle. It brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories,…
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