We asked LCS community members to find awesome Latino/a academics & professionals shaping the world today.
This is what they found...
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Andrea Rivera
Student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University
Won top lead engineer in a engineering challenge at SHPE’s annual national convention.
Diana Bonilla
Technology Platform Advisory Analyst at Accenture
BS in Industrial Engineering
Vicente Robles
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering student at UC Riverside studying cavitation bubbles
Judge Patricia Guerrero
Daughter of Mexican immigrants nominated as the first Latina to serve on the California Supreme Court.
Franciela Garcia
Master's in Food Science
She Is Award Winner from PepsiCo
Quality & Food Safety Coordinator at PepsiCo
Julio M. Pimentel Ph.D. Fellow
Selected as 40 Under 40 Nation's Top Cancer Researcher and Rising Star
Dr. Flores
UCI Chicano/Latino Studies Associate Professor
Giamara Rosado
Executive at Acacia Network
Maida Lopez
Space and Launch Systems Engineer at Boeing
Estrella Salazar
Mexican teen develops App to help deaf sister communicate.
Angel B. Morales-Santiago, MD
Board Certified, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology
Robert W. Fernandez
Founder of Cientifico Latino
Ph.D. candidate in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry at Yale University
Sandra Hernandez
Systems Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Melanie Weber
Spacecraft Design Engineer at Boeing
Raquel Coronell Uribe
Harvard Crimson elects first Latina president in student newspaper’s nearly 150-year history.
Alan Salcedo Gomez
Graduating with degrees in Physics & Mathematics with a GPA of 4.0.
Born & raised in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Dr. Brian Aguado
PhD in Biomedical Engineering
Leads Aguado iBiomaterials Research Group
Co-founder of LatinXinBME Community
Dr. Sylvia Herbozo
PhD in Clinical Psychology
Associate Professor. Psychologist. Consultant. Founder of plans4psych.org
Yessica Santana Agreda
Neuroscience PhD Student studying retinal development
Gus Hernandez
Integration Specialist at Boeing & NASA's Space Launch System
Boeing Familia NOLA President
Ana Venerio
2021 Elijah S. Robinson Award Recipient at TANMS Engineering Research Center
Itzel Martinez
Software Engineer at Pandora
Founder
Latinas Engineering Leadership Program
Miguel De La Torre
MS4 @ Keck School of Medicine at USC
Giselle González
Student Physician and Advocate/Community Organizer
Majored in Political Science & Minor in Education @ UCLA
Pursuing Ph.D. in Education & Psychology
Miguel Fraga
Environmental Engineering Research Assistant
President of Engineers for a Sustainable World at UTEP
Roy Contreras
Senior Director of Games Production, Nickelodeon
Aileen A. Tapia
Major: Industrial and Systems Engineering
National Undergraduate Representative of Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Kearstie Hernandez
High School Chemistry Teacher
MA in Teaching, USC
Clarissa Aguirre
Major: Metallurgical Engineering
Member of:
Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES)
Luis M. Campos, Ph.D
Associate Professor in the Dept. of Chemistry at Columbia University
Ph.D. from the Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UCLA
B.S. in Chemistry from CSU Dominguez Hills
Dr. Vanessa Salcedo MD
Director of Community Health and a practicing pediatrician at Union Community Health Center in Bronx, NY
Dr. Ana Nogales
Psychologist & Founder of Nogales Psychological Counseling, Inc. & Casa de la Familia
Alejandro Martinez
SHPE CSUN - President
Majoring in Computer Science
Maria Escamilla
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
PhD Bound
Estefanía Ortiz
Founder of Latin@ Coder Summit
Studying Computer Science at Stanford University
Andrew Rosales
First Generation Med student at USC
Angelica Inguanzo
Coder
Frontend engineer at YouTube Go
Alberto Avalos
Major: Political Science UC Santa Barbara
Innovation & Technology Program Manager at Hispanic Heritage Foundation
Natalia Oberti Noguera
Founder & CEO of Pipeline Angels
BA in Comparative Literature & Economics from Yale
Dr. Jessica Morales-Chicas
PhD in Education, UCLA
Interests in Ethnic Diversity, Child Development, Math, & STEM
Laura I. Gomez
CEO and Founder of Atipica
Bachelor’s from University of California, Berkeley Master’s from University of California, San Diego.
Rebecca Garcia
Co-founder of CoderDojo NYC
Program Manager at Microsoft
Geoffrey Krampitz. MD, PhD
Surgery Resident at Stanford Hospital & Clinics
Cathy Amaya
Third-year graduate student in the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Department at Yale University
Ingrid Vazquez Solis, PhD
B.A. in Linguistics and Psychology from UCLA
Denisse Rojas Marquez
Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of young achievers
MD in Route
Erik Morales
Majoring in Electrical Engineering
Director of Student Affairs at CSUN
Julissa Ramirez
Engineer
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Honoree & Gente’s Choice Award Winner
Marcos Mejia
Product Designer, Facebook
Tech Field
Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design
Patricia Millán
B.S. Mathematics & Statistics
Data Analyst in Tech field
Dr. Verónica Nelly Vélez
Assistant Professor and Director of the Education and Social Justice Minor at Western Washington University
Alejandra Fuentes
Studying Biomedical Engineering at USC
Beatriz Sosa-Prado
PhD student in Public Health at the University of California, Merced
J. Ruben Rodriguez, MD
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