Join us as we celebrate Latino Heritage Month with student/student organization performances, music, dinner and keynote address by Yen Ospina, President of the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County (LCA).
Doors open 5:00 pm • Dinner 5:30 pm followed by program.
Funded by the Latina/o Studies with support from the Latinx Student Empowerment office, Asociación de Sudamericanos Unidos (ASaU), Latino Living Center, La Asociacion Latina, Cornell Latino Alumni Association.
If you need accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Azucena Ortega at aeo34@cornell.edu or Marti Dense at mfd1@cornell.edu.
Tuesday, October 20 @ 4:30 pm - 429 Rockefeller Hall
Come learn the ins and outs of applying to graduate school, including choosing the best programs for your interests, preparing your application materials, asking for letters of recommendation, and more! The session will be run by Anitra Douglas-McCarthy, Assistant Dean for Access and Recruitment from Cornell's Graduate School, and will include a presentation as well as time for Q&A.
A lunchtime series to introduce students to Cornell alums who will offer advice on preparing for an ever-changing workplace. Alums will discuss their academic trajectories, networking, internships and employment, and what they wish they had known when they were students at Cornell.
Join us for light lunch (for those attending in person) and a virtual conversation followed by Q & A with Latina/o alumni. Open to all.
Andres Holzer-Torres '06 Engineering/Computer Science
Andres Holzer-Torres, aikidoka, dog parent, citizen of the world. Andres moved to Venezuela after being born in Ithaca while his parents finished their PhDs. He returned to Ithaca, to attend Cornell university after finishing high school in Venezuela. After graduating he spent time across a variety of industries (finance at UBS, financial consulting at JP Morgan, healthtech, market research, cybersecurity) and company life stages (massive multi-national at UBS, employee 5 in a seed stage startup at Picnic) working in the software engineering space. Andres was an individual contributor for 15 of those years, and has been doing management over the last 5.
