Past News & Events
Panelist at #InclusiveSciComm
September 27, 2019

Shared my perspectives on communicating science in Spanish at a panel on best practices for inclusive science communication on social media during the InclusiveSciComm Symposium at the University of Rhode Island.
Featured on the Forbes website
September 22, 2019
Journalist Andrew Wight wrote a really nice piece on the story behind my crocheted microbes and my experience using them this summer to teach students with Clubes de Ciencia - Colombia in my hometown. The article is titled "How Do You Tell Colombian Kids A Science Yarn? With Crochet!".
Selected an AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador
September 9, 2019

It is an honor to have been selected as an AAAS IF/THEN® Ambassador by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Lyda Hill Philanthropies to share my story and serve as a high-profile role model for middle-school girls. Read the announcement.
Visited collaborators in Guatemala
July 15-18, 2019

I traveled to Guatemala to visit our collaborators at CeSSIAM. Hosted by Drs. Noel Solomons & Gabriela Montenegro, I got the chance to share our results on our project on geographical differences of gut microbiota composition at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala in Guatemala City and Universidad Mesoamericana in Xela.
Named Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
January 2019