From participating in the Ohio Latino Health Summit to other field trips and special visitors, IMPACT students had a busy fall semester! Here is a recap of the Latinx Role Model events that gave students opportunities to learn about a wide variety of careers:
On October 3, Cohorts 3 and 4 took a field trip to labs at Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute and Nanotech West coordinated with Dr. Daniel Gallego Perez. Students received facility tours and overviews and demos of the various lab work done in these locations.
Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute
On October 17, trilingual scientist and educator Carla Mello came to Westland High School to tell students about her life and career as well as transitions from her home country of Brazil, to Chile where she lived for six years, to finally the United States. You can read more about her visit in our last blog post!
On November 4, students were visited by Paloma Peña, Director of Quality and Customer Experience at Martti, a tele-interpreting network which provides healthcare facilities with “ready access to interpreters on any device, anywhere and anytime.” Ms. Peña spoke to students about her life and work with medical interpreting via distance conferencing computers.
On November 21, students welcomed the final Latinx Role Model of 2019, licensed professional counselor Ana Berríos-Allison. You can find an episode of the podcast, Ohio Habla, which features Ana Berríos-Allison discussing Latinx mental health here.