August 2011-May 2015
Bryn Mawr, PA

As a Spanish major and an environmental studies minor, I took a wide range of classes in the humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. My Spanish senior thesis, "La muerte fecunda del indígena: Las ventriloquias del teatro latinoamericano del siglo XIX" / "The Fertile Death of the Indigenous: Ventriloquisms of 19th-Century Latin American Theater," explored how post-independence Latin American nations pushed indigenous communities into a mythicized national past and transformed contemporary audiences into new national citizens through literary analysis of four Latin American plays.
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Awards/Honors:

• Graduated summa cum laude, with honors in Spanish
• Winner of the European Fellowship: an award granted to a graduating senior based on exceptional grades and faculty nominations
• Winner of the Janice Bond Award for Excellence in a Foreign Language for my senior thesis, which is a prize granted by Bryn Mawr in recognition of an outstanding senior thesis written in a foreign language.
• Winner of the Senior Award for Latin American Studies: Awarded by the Pan-American Association of Philadelphia to a nominated student for excellence in Latin American scholarship

Select classes
Memoria y la guerra civil / Memory and the Civil War: This class combined Spanish literature, culture, and history to examine how the Spanish Civil War was and is depicted in various forms of media, as well as how those depictions informed, and continue to inform, Spanish memories of the war. 

Urban Ecosystems: An investigation of the ways in which built and natural environments inform and are informed by each other in urban spaces; we explored the ecologies of urban spaces around Philadelphia and utilized data sets to draw conclusions about the effects of human activity on non-human ecosystems.

Native Land, American Literature: An English class that focused on depictions of indigenous communities and native people in U.S. literature and cultures.
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Performing the City: A performing arts class that explored the ways in which bodies and identity simultaneously create and are created by city spaces. ​​

Activities

• Worked as a peer writing tutor in the Bryn Mawr Writing Center for three years. As a writing tutor, I facilitated one-on-one sessions with Bryn Mawr students on writing of all subjects styles. I also worked closely with two individuals each year who required more consistent writing support, and collaborated with them to create personalized lesson plans and goals for the year.
• Founded, coordinated, and choreographed for Bryn Mawr's Irish dance student group, which grew from 4 people at inception to 20+ by the time I graduated. The club facilitated weekly classes led by a professional teacher and hosted yearly Celtic festivals to showcase student talent. As president, I was responsible for submitting biannual budget proposals to the student government, keeping track of finances, and coordinating the classes, as well as spearheading festival planning each year.
• Performed in 4 plays with the Bryn Mawr Shakespeare Performance Troupe, and took on leadership roles in teaching acting workshops for new participants.