Alumni Update Form
Please stay in touch with the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute by keeping your address and personal information updated. If you have any questions about this form, please call us at 718-817-4792 or email us at lalsi@fordham.edu.
Latin American and Latino Studies alumni are involved in exciting work and study in many different countries.
Alberto Rodriguez (FCRH ’00) was recently elected to the West New York, NY city council. As the Commissioner of Public Works, he is responsible for that department as well as Fire Prevention, Cultural Affairs, and Code Enforcement. Alberto is the youngest elected official in the history of West New York.
Tyler Griswold (FCRH ’03) recently began studies for a master’s degree at the Yale University School of Public Health. He plans to research HIV/AIDS transmission and risk-taking behaviors in Latino communities, here and abroad. Before entering the public health program, Tyler worked for the New York State Department of Public Health and with a Bronx non-profit group, Citizens Advice Bureau as the HIV/AIDS specialist.
Asia Leeds (FCLC ’03) is a PhD candidate in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Her dissertation examines race, nation, and identity in Costa Rica in the 1920s and 1930s. In her senior year at Fordham, Asia won a Fulbright award for study in Costa Rica.
Giancarlo Iosue (FCRH ‘04) is Manager, Business Development in Latin America for the International Council of Shopping Centers, the global trade association of the shopping center industry.
Rosemary Ramsey (FCRH ’05, GSAS ’06) works in El Salvador with a small non-governmental organization named Voices on the Border. She helps ex-combatants and refugees from the civil war in their struggles to claim their rights to land, water, and participation in their government.
Donna Diaz (FCRH ’06) is studying education at the University of Kassel in Germany.
Catherine Wood (FCLC ’06) is a Peace Corps Community Economic Development Volunteer.
Margaret Hargrave (FCRH ’07) won a Fulbright award for Bolivia. Her research project, “Quechua Market Women: Traditional Andean Medicines and Ethnic Identity” involves interviews with indigenous women who sell medicines, as well the people buying their wares.
Emily Weiss (RCRH ’08) joined the Jesuit Volunteers and works in Costa Rica.
