Overcoming Gender Bias
All around the world, students find their education severely disrupted by Covid-19—including at Harvard and for this Chilean at Harvard in particular. In Chile, all educational institutions in the…
Category: COVID October 2021
Women innovating in agriculture for sustainable development
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In Honduras, María del Pilar Luna began to innovate in one area, the production, and processing of fish skin, for its transformative application in another area – the luxury…
A Beacon of Hope for Brazil in a Pandemic Year
Such was the exchange I had with my Ph.D. advisor, Paul Sternberg, on that fateful week in March 2020, when it felt like the entire world was going to collapse. On Tuesday the 10th…
Brazil: Plastic Surgery, Covid-19 and Self-Esteem
Brazil is the country where most aesthetic surgeries were performed in 2019, according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS). Brazil had almost 1.5 million…
Disruption and Creation in Education
These past years have been like no other time in our recent history. We have learned to come together, to collaborate and to adapt. The 2021 Latin American Education Forum (LAEF) did…
