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“Graduating magna cum laude from Georgetown University provided me with a great deal of reassurance and pride. When I came from Cuba nine years ago, I never imagined that what I was dreaming at that time could actually become a reality.”
Profile: Undergraduate Transfer Scholar, now Graduate Scholar Anahi Cortada had a busy few years at Georgetown University. Anahi graduated with honors in the spring of 2012 after transferring to the historic Jesuit University from Miami-Dade College in Florida. During her time as “a Hoya,” Anahi spent a semester at the university’s campus in Turkey where she studied issues affecting the Eastern Mediterranean region and also completed a crash course in conflict analysis education at the US Institute of Peace. She worked in the Department of Theology doing research on the Yoruba religion and assisted a religion professor who was writing a book. Anahi interned at the Salzburg Global seminar in Austria where she helped organize a seminar on sustainable development and global citizenship. Anahi arrived in the US nine years ago from Cuba speaking very little English and with few financial resources. She developed her language skills at and graduated with honors from Miami-Dade College. What was and remains her motivation? “I am motivated by my mother’s sacrifices and my career goal of becoming a lawyer. Both help me gather the strength to continue moving forward.”
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