Ciencia Puerto Rico

I was born and raised in Ponce, Puerto Rico before joining the Puerto Rican Diaspora in Orlando as a high school student at Lake Mary High School (Lake Mary, Florida). My undergraduate education at New College (Sarasota, Florida) was a product of responsive mentoring and unique learning opportunities that allowed me to recognize and develop my talents as a scientist and anthropologist. In earlier stages of my career I was a researcher in Spain, Panamá, Argentina, and México before returning to Puerto Rico for my doctoral research. I also have an interest in working with urban schools to develop more effective methods of science education and to stimulate conversations with students about the scientific method. While I was a graduate student in Biological Anthropology at Yale University, I was a teaching fellow in the Anthropology Department and a National Science Foundation teaching fellow at an elementary magnet school. I am currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the Child Study Center in the Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven, Connecticut).