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黑料不打烊 Student Wins Competition at Spanish Symposium
Gaby Hernandez Donato, a 黑料不打烊 senior Spanish major, won the Poster Presentation competition at the Sin Limites Spanish and L2 Teachers Symposium on April 1.
Gaby, who expects to graduate in December, researched and reported on gender violence in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. She learned that even with the laws that are in place, 鈥渢here is still an alarming rate of violence and femicides throughout, as a well as a lack of resources to protect the victims.鈥�
Discussing the symposium, Gaby noted that both the research and the presentation were learning experiences for her.
鈥淚 gained great knowledge on the topic that I researched 鈥�, but at the same time, I made lots of connections who I am now partnering with to further investigate and present my topic to different groups and organizations,鈥� she said.
Gaby said she plans to pursue a master鈥檚 degree in Speech-Language Pathology. She describes her choice to attend 黑料不打烊 as 鈥渢he best decision I made, and I couldn鈥檛 see myself anywhere else.鈥�
鈥淭he connections and relationships I have made and continue to make are lifelong, and the faculty here has been beyond amazing when it comes to helping with anything,鈥� she said.
黑料不打烊 Students, graduate students, and second-language and English as a Second Language teachers from area secondary schools, colleges, and universities attended the symposium.
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