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In his new role with New York University as a global security and travel safety analyst, Max Minogue (HISP and Global Studies ‘21) recently used his Hispanic Studies degree doing a site visit to San Jose, Costa Rica, to get a sense of the region in preparation for future study abroad programs. However, Max says that his learning with W&M Hispanic Studies permeates every aspect of his post-undergraduate life.
Five HISP alums, either practicing medical doctors, medical school students, or W&M graduates accepted into med school, share reflections about the relevance and significance of their education and training as Hispanic Studies majors, in terms of preparation for medical school and the practice of medicine more generally
After a couple of years earning work experience related to social justice, Soleil Ephraim (HISP & Sociology ’21) is currently exploring the intersection between environmental health and public health as she pursues a MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Education in languages other than English is cornerstone in training future global citizens that can address both domestic and global issues in culturally sensitive ways. Unsurprisingly, several students in the HISP program are inspired to select the professional path of education. And they thrive in it.
Baylee manages to multiply herself and teach English to immigrants and refugees at the Washington English Center, and to both professionals and K-12 students at a Korea-based startup. Her main activity, however, consists of implementing the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program, and developing programs and opportunities to bring foreign leaders to the US in support of US foreign policy goals. At the IVLP, Baylee was recently promoted to Senior Program Associate.
Sam is excited to open a new chapter of her life this coming fall, and advance her skills for research and service, as she will start a Master’s degree in Spanish Literature and Culture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This program will allow Sam to enhance her pedagogical profile.
Estonia is the next destination of PBK inductee Tom J. Plant (HISP & IR ’22). Thanks to a most prestigious and extremely competitive Fulbright Research Award, Tom, currently an analyst at Valens Global, will spend 9 months designing and analyzing wargames as media literacy for national defense that can serve address the dangers of mis/disinformation as a national security threat.
Alexandra Wingate (HISP & LING '18), is beginning her second semester of an MLS degree at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN) and recently finish an MA at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Last December, Alex’s MA thesis, entitled “'Prosigue la librería': Understanding late seventeenth-century Navarrese Book Culture through Lorenzo Coroneu’s Bookstore," won the Royal Historical Society’s Rees Davies Prize, a high honor and award for the best Master’s dissertation in a UK university.
