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Powerful Voices: Overcoming Challenges in Entomology - 8th Latin American/ Hispanic Symposium

5: Insects move across borders, so can we: Tales from a young entomologist

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST
Livestream
The bee is domesticated but not tamed – William Longgood. As bees, humans go outside of the hive when they are ready to explore the world. In a similar way, I have moved outside of the hive in the pursues of my goals. I have travel across borders in the search of my niche, a niche that is surrounded by six-legged animals. Yes, I became an entomologist. As I child, I worked in our small family farm, growing corn, beans and taking care of a few cows. In my innocent mind I quickly realized beauty of insects, but also their potential negative roles they can have to our crops. Since then, I realized I wanted to study agriculture (and later entomology) to overcome the difficulties by insect pests for food production. So far, I have nearly lived half of my life outside of my home country (Guatemala). During my traveling, I have fallen many times, I have made many mistakes, but I have always got up and continued moving forward. To date, in the United States I keep moving across the borders of knowledge, leadership and experience. I am doing what I love, I am an entomologist, and I want to share my story with you.