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Without a Heart, it’s just a machine.So in 1971, a little Heart built a different kind of airline—one that made sure everyone could fly. Everyone has important places to go. So we invented low-fares to help them get there. And with all the places we’re going next, we’ll always put you first, because our love of People is still our most powerful fuel. Some say we do things differently. We say, why would we do things any other way? Without a Heart, it’s just a machine.

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Veronica Kole is a unique bilingual teen pop performing artist from New Jersey. With over 350 performances within the last 3 years, thousands of fans on her social networking websites, and the millions of people she’s performed in front of, nothing will stop her from reaching the top. Not only is music her passion but she dances, plays guitar, piano, writes all her own music, and sings/writes in Spanish. At the age of 9 after the death of her brother, she found her passion in music by writing her first original song, “Forever Gone”. Now, nothing can stop her. She’s positive, has a heart of gold, and a passion for helping others. She’s overcome every struggle and many look to her as their everyday superhero. She conveys her life and message through music and her relateable outlook on life. She believes everyone has a story and she is determined to share hers in a special way. With the support of fans all over America, she’s working on achieving her dreams of becoming a household name all over the world.

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THANK YOUHISPA Role Model Program ParticipantsAbraham López CHPRD - NJ Department of StateAixa Acevedo HISPAAlex Pena VerizonAmanda Vega NJ Charter School AssociationAnthony Rodriguez ARMGArelis Henriquez Verizon WirelessBlanca Rosales-Ahn Kean UniversityBrenda Ortiz-Marín NJ Governor's Fellow AlumniCarolina Young Columbia UniversityChristian Reinoso UPSCindy Manrique Gilbane Building CompanyClara Torres PSEGClarisa Gónzalez Lenahan NJITCraig Wesley Nationall Multiple Sclerosis SocietyDamaris García ETSDebra Garza ConsultantDeiter Cantu Position of Power OrganizationDenise Rivera BMSDiana Calle NJ Governor's Fellow AlumniDiana Escudeiro-Oliveira NJ Governor's Fellow AlumniDominique Prince UTSAEarvin Casciano NJ Governor's Fellow AlumniEmy Quispe NJ Governor's Fellow AlumniFrancisco Rivera USAAFranco Nilo UPSGabby Monje NJ Governor's Fellow AlumniGloria Cevallos Bergen Community CollegeIvonne Díaz-Claisse, PhD HISPAJesus Gónzalez UPSJoanne Rodríguez VerizonJohanna Aguilar-López Chubb Group of Insurance CompaniesJohn Canela NJIT - GraduateJose Gómez SHPEJosé Ramon Campos Dan & Camp ConsultingJoseph Retuerto NovartisJuan López BMCCJuliette Ammerman BMSJulio Minaya UPSKairy Quinonez NJ Governor's Fellow Alumni

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PPL physicist wins Early Career Research Program grant to develop tools to eliminate impurities in fusion plasmas

By Jeanne Jackson DeVoe May 11, 2015

Physicist Luis Delgado-Aparicio, of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has won a highly competitive Early Career Research award sponsored by the DOE’s Office of Science. The five-year grant of some $2.6 million will fund Delgado-Aparicio’s research aimed at eliminating a key barrier to developing fusion power as a safe, clean and abundant source of electric energy.

Delgado-Aparicio said he is delighted to receive the grant. “It’s a research and development process that will last for five years but it’s a program that will certainly have an impact in our field,” he said. “I’m very, very excited about it.”

Fusion occurs when a super-hot electrically charged gas called plasma is heated to temperatures hotter than the sun and becomes hot and dense enough to force atomic nuclei to fuse together and create a burst of energy. Delgado-Aparicio’s research focuses on the impurities that migrate from the interior walls and plasma-facing components of a fusion facility — or tokamak — into the plasma. These impurities are tiny particles that can cool the plasma and halt or slow the fusion reaction. Delgado-Aparicio is developing a process to enable researchers to pinpoint and analyze the impurities and quickly flush them out of the plasma.

Ridding plasmas of these impurities is becoming increasingly vital as experiments utilize longer pulses to produce more sustained fusion energy. “It’s a very important question: What’s going to happen when we try to confine a plasma for several minutes, hours, days or even months?” Delgado-Aparicio said. “We need to create a mechanism to mitigate the presence of these very troublesome impurities or to flush them from the core of the plasma.”

Tackling this problem will be crucial for ITER, the international fusion experiment under construction in the south of France, and the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U), which is completing a nearly three-year upgrade at PPPL. Part of the ITER interior will be made of the heavy metal tungsten, a source of highly-charged impurities that can quickly radiate away heat from the core plasma. And researchers in Princeton will replace the carbon-coated walls of the NSTX-U with a full-metal wall made of tungsten or molybdenum in the next five years.

Delgado-Aparicio and David Gates, a principal research physicist at PPPL, recently proposed an answer to a mysterious problem in plasma physics called “the density limit” that also centers on impurities and prevents fusion reactors from operating at maximum efficiency. The researchers found that tiny, bubble-like magnetic islands form in the plasma and collect impurities. These islands not only cool the plasma but act like shields that block out added power that is pumped into the tokamak. If these islands grow too large, the electric current that heats and confines the plasma collapses and the plasma flies apart. One goal of Delgado-Aparicio’s research is to find methods to prevent these disruptions by minimizing the loss of energy caused by the impurities. These methods could achieve better performance in fusion reactors by ensuring that the maximum amount of energy goes into fusion reactions.

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Third winner at PPPL in the last three yearsDelgado-Aparicio, of Montgomery Township, New Jersey, was one of 44 winners of an Early Career award nationwide and the third researcher at PPPL to win the honor in as many years. Physicist Brian Grierson won a grant last year for research into the mechanisms that govern the formation and maintenance of the hot edge of fusion plasmas. Ahmed Diallo, leader of the pedestal structure and control topical science group for the NSTX-U, won a grant in 2013 for research on the plasma edge.

News is bittersweetDelgado-Aparicio said it was bittersweet when he first received news of the award. He learned of it in April while in the airport on his way to visit his ailing father in Lima, Peru. “It was difficult to be happy because half my brain was occupied by my dad,” he said. He phoned his parents about the award and his father, a former Peruvian congressman who was also named Luis Delgado-Aparicio, died half-an hour-later, shortly after his son boarded the airplane to visit him.

Delgado-Aparicio and his 10-year-old son Mateo were back in Lima for a memorial service for his father when DOE announced the Early Career recipients on May 6. He said he is now better able to both remember his father fondly and take pleasure in the award. “I begin to feel happier about his life” Delgado-Aparicio said. “He was an enthusiast of the work I was doing. He was a great supporter in my life. I feel very happy to have had him in my life and I’m sure he was ecstatic to hear about the prize.”Delgado-Aparicio earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, and a master’s degree in astrophysics from Princeton University in 2001. He earned a second master’s in physics from Johns Hopkins University and received his PhD in physics from Johns Hopkins in 2007. He joined PPPL in 2009 and spent three and a half years as a visiting scientist at MIT before returning to PPPL in the summer of 2013.

A complex diagnostic toolDelgado-Aparicio plans to study how the impurities react with the plasma by using a complex x-ray diagnostic that will show exactly what happens to the plasma when the impurities are introduced. The device will reveal not only the size and location of the impurities, but also the kind of energy they radiate, which will pinpoint the sources as well as the properties of how impurities are transported in fusion plasmas. The diagnostic will also show how the impurities affect the energy and temperature of the plasma.

This information will provide a guide for removing the impurities, Delgado-Aparicio said. One solution could be to change how the impurities are transported into and through the plasma. For example, researchers might use a tangential neutral beam to heat the plasma to an extremely high temperature to change the way impurities are transported and steer them away from the core of the plasma. The neutral beam would also speed the movement of the plasma, creating a centrifugal effect to spin the impurities away from the plasma’s center. Another solution could be to create perturbations within the plasma to force the impurities out.

Delgado-Aparicio plans to test his diagnostic on NSTX-U. He also plans to conduct experiments on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak at MIT; the DIII-D tokamak at General Atomics in San Diego, and the Tokamak á Configuration Variable (TCV) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Ivonne Díaz-Claisse, PhDPresident & CEO, HISPA

Ivonne Díaz-Claisse is the founder, President and CEO of HISPA, Hispanics Inspiring Students’ Performance and Achievement. HISPA is a non-profit 501(c)3 that encourages students’ success by recruiting, supporting and coordinating Latino professionals’ participation in educational programs in the communities where they live and work. Under her leadership HISPA has recruited close to 2,000 volunteers, conducted 450 HISPA Role Model Program sessions and has hosted 15 Youth Conferences. In 2011, HISPA extended its programs to San Antonio, Texas, and in 2013 to New York City.

Díaz-Claisse is an active HISPA Role Model herself, leading by example and having shared her educational and career experiences with over 5,000 students nationwide. She has spoken at AT&T, ETS, J&J, Ogilvy, Novartis, Merck, UPS, Verizon and Viacom, among other companies. She has also spoken at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers

and Princeton universities, and at many national conferences including the College Board’s “Préparate: Educating Latinos for the Future of America,” and the U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute.

Her support of Latino youth has been recognized by Verizon’s Hispanic Employee Resource Group with the 2012 Community Service Award; Save Latin America, Inc. with the 2011 Tres Próceres Award; the New Jersey Hispanic Research and Information Center with the 2010 Distinguished Maria De Castro Blake Outstanding Community Service Award, and the Trenton YWCA 2014 New Jersey Women’s Hall of Fame.

Since 2005, Díaz-Claisse has also been a consultant to various public and private entities. She is now a consultant to non-profit Educational Testing Service, advising the company on programs that seek to increase educational opportunities for Hispanics, particularly in higher education, and helping to foster collaborative initiatives with selected organizations. She also provides best practices consulting on diversity and inclusion for various companies and employee resource groups.

Her professional background includes a 10-year career at AT&T as an Operations Research Analyst supporting network capacity planning initiatives by providing expertise in data analysis, optimization and forecasting. She also worked for seven years as an educational consultant for Camera Mundi, Inc., a Puerto Rico-based company specializing in teacher training and creative educational solutions.

She holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico; a Masters in Engineering in Operations Research from Cornell University, a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Arizona State University. With this background and her professional experience, Díaz-Claisse is particularly passionate about growing the pipeline of Hispanic students going into the STEM fields. She is fluent in English and Spanish and is a highly skilled lecturer and motivational speaker.

Romy RiddickAssistant Vice President for Human Resources, Princeton University

Romy Riddick, assistant vice president for human resources, including employee & labor relations, diversity and inclusion, and learning and development, joined Princeton in August 2012. Romy served in a dual role from February through May of 2014 as both Director of Diversity and Inclusion and Acting Executive Director of Client Services and was then promoted to serve as executive director for client services on a full time basis in June 2014. She is dedicated to identifying and coordinating strategies that link diversity and institutional excellence. Her works support the design, implementation, research and analysis of diversity initiatives that develop talent while continuously enhancing an inclusive Princeton employee experience. In her role, Romy works closely with the University-wide Institutional Equity and Diversity Team, University Diversity Council, Employee Resource Groups, diversity advisory councils and campus partners.

Prior to joining Princeton, Romy was senior vice president, head of talent management and diversity at TD Bank, where she led the strategic planning and implementation for all aspects of the diversity and inclusion effort for the U.S. Bank. Romy has also managed national diversity recruitment and retention efforts for PricewaterhouseCoopers and, as a former trainer in organizational development for Merrill Lynch, she delivered diversity training to management across the organization. Romy began her career as a legislative aide in state government where she was responsible for research to support legislative testimony aimed at benefiting women and children for the Maryland State Women’s Caucus.

Romy serves as a commissioner of the Women’s Refugee Commission, a nonprofit advocating for laws, policies and programs to improve the lives and protect the rights of refugee women and children. She is a member of the Salute Steering Committee for YWCA of the City of New York, which oversees the annual induction of honorees into the Academy of Women Achievers and has served on the Women’s Multicultural Planning Committee for Working Mother Media. Romy is the mother of three children, a daughter and two sons, and is married to her high school sweetheart. She resides in New Jersey with her family.

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HISPA Role Models and Students Networking Session (Multipurpose Room)Siemens Science Time - Miguel Ramírez, Kristine Kayser & Walter Trinkl, Siemens

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Master of CeremoniesAxel Carrión, UPS

HISPA Opening RemarksDr. Ivonne Díaz-Claisse, HISPA President & CEO

Princeton University Opening RemarksRomy Riddick, Princeton University

Keynote Address “Take Action, Achieve Your Dreams”Luis Delgado-Aparicio, Ph.D., U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

College Students Panel: “Life After High School”Rod Colón, ModeratorFellows, Center for Hispanic Policy, Research and Development, Office of the Governor of NJ

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“So you Want to Build a Game App…” (Room 302) Verizon HSO & Orlando Rivera, Digital Summit.tvFun With Fractals (Room 208)ETS & HISPAPainting My Way to the Moon (Room 309)Dr. Edward BelbrunoHow is Energy Moving New Jersey’s Economy Forward? (Room 234)PSE&G AdelanteBetter By Design - Let’s Build a Rocket! (Multipurpose Room)AT&T HACEMOS & SHPEBig Dreams Laboratories (Room 307)Bristol-Myers Squibb OLATeacher Workshop (Room 210)Francisco González

Lunch and Musical Guest Performances (Multipurpose Room) Drug-Free NJ, 2015 Shout Down Drugs Prevention Concert Winners Special Performance: Christopher Mendoza and Sehmon Burnam

Closing Session (Multipurpose Room) Inspirational Address: Your Voice is Your Power! Carlos Ojeda, CoolSpeak CEOSpecial Performance: Inspirational SongsVeronica Kole, International Bilingual Performer

HISPA Networking Reception Hosted by Princeton University Office of the Provost RemarksMichele Minter, Vice Provost, Princeton UniversityYvette Donado, Senior Vice President and CAO, ETS

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SPEAKERSAxel CarriónDivision Operations Manager, UPS

Axel Carrion is a first generation Bronx-born and raised Boricua. Making yearly trips to “El Campo” in Trujillo Alto and Gurabo, he became attuned to his parents’ sacrifices to find better opportunities as did many immigrants before them. He enjoyed his grandfather’s farm, but early on knew he had a responsibility to fulfill his parents’ desire for a better future.

Axel grew up in housing projects in the tough Soundview/Castle Hill section of the Bronx where his parents enrolled him in sports to keep him out of trouble. He excelled in baseball and track while maintaining straight A’s in school. In high school, he minored in music, playing section leader for the Alto Saxophone group. He discovered his love for law while interning with the Criminal Investigations Division of the Internal Revenue Service. After two years as an accounting major at Baruch College (CUNY) where

he was a member of Puerto Ricans for Involvement, Development and Enlightenment (P.R.I.D.E.), he transferred to John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), earning a Bachelors in Criminal Justice with Cum Laude honors. His graduation was the happiest moment of his life as he achieved his goal of being the first in his family with a college degree. Axel then went to graduate school at night for four years to earn a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice. In his 18-year career at United Parcel Service, Axel quickly rose through the ranks, managing investigation units in New York and New Jersey. He was promoted into operations, running one of the largest UPS operating centers in the country. He is now the highest ranking Latino in UPS’ New Jersey District, and is also a lead United Way coordinator for the organization.

Axel volunteers in his local township recreational sports department where his two daughters, like father/like daughter, participate in sports year round. He has taken an interest in acting and is studying theater at Playhouse 22 in East Brunswick. As the official food taster, he is a big supporter of his wife’s business, “Mi Cocina” (she teaches Latin cooking to children and is a weekly contributor to Fox News Latino).

Orlando RiveraDigitalSummit.TV

Orlando Rivera is a forward-thinking, versatile, and hands-on manager, leader, teacher, and media developer with experience in web, video and streaming; interactive media; and mobile and infrastructure. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film, Video, and Animation from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, as well as Information Technology training from New York University. This educational background has helped him lead and produce successful IT/New Media strategic solutions, including technologies such as the iPhone, iPad, Objective-C Flash design, eLearning, game development, Maya, Unity3D, development (both client and server-side), and video and streaming technologies (IBM, Intercall, AT&T, QVC, J&J, Sony BMG). Orlando has also been a Visual Effects Supervisor for independent feature films, shorts, and 3D animations (www.FranknSon.com) as well as for games for the iPad, iPhone, and business iOS apps (DigitalSummit.TV).

Orlando has a very strong web and mobile programming background, particularly in software systems development and project management. He has developed VOD and Live Streaming solutions for QVC, AT&T, InterCall Inc., and Sony/BMG, and worked in mobile development for IBM Watson Center. Orlando’s IT Leadership roles have included Director of Technology at Mellon Bank, Senior Manager at QVC.com, Web Director at Sony/BMG, Technology Manager at Ernst & Young, and Senior Technical Architect at AT&T and Intercall. He has spoken about technology and digital media at various conferences including MLearning.dev.com and Trenton Computer Festival and as Digital Film Instructor at Middlesex Country Vocational & Technical School and Touro College. He has also served on the Advisory Committee on Computers and Education for New York State Legislation Commission on Science and Technology.

Dr. Edward Belbrunowww.belbrunoart.com (Art) www.edbelbruno.com (Science)

Edward Belbruno is both an artist and astrophysicist. He has always loved space. When he was only seven years old, he did an oil painting of Saturn’s moon Titan. He received his doctorate in mathematics from New York University’s Courant Institute in 1980, specializing in celestial mechanics.

His first job was an assistant professor of mathematics at Boston University, and then he went to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1986 where he designed routes to Jupiter and Saturn for robotic spacecraft. While there, Belbruno laid the foundations for the first application of chaos theory to space travel, finding new low fuel routes to the Moon and beyond. His work was dramatically

demonstrated in 1991 in the rescue of the Japanese spacecraft Hiten, which had almost no fuel, and successfully guided it to the Moon on a new route. Since then, he has applied mathematics to problems ranging to the origin of the Moon, life on Earth and the origin of the Universe. He does research at Princeton University in mathematical cosmology. He also works closely with NASA on new routes to Moon, Mars and beyond.

Belbruno is an acclaimed painter, who has had many international exhibitions including Paris, Rome, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., New York, and Minneapolis. One of his paintings is part of NASA’s executive collection in Washington, D.C. and he has several in Princeton University’s permanent collection. He recently held an exhibition at Lincoln Center sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera House Guild, and at Gallery 61 in New York City. His artwork was recently featured in NPR’s Studio 360. A feature award-winning documentary has recently been made about his life and work entitled, Painting the Way to the Moon, by Jacob Okada. Belbruno has appeared twice on NBC’s Today Show. His most recent book is Fly Me to the Moon. Belbruno is affiliated with Princeton University.

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Michele MinterVice Provost for Institutional Equity & Diversity, Princeton University

Michele Minter became Princeton University’s vice provost for institutional equity and diversity in 2011. In this role, she manages the University’s equal opportunity and affirmative action efforts, as well as oversees initiatives associated with affirmative action compliance and equity, diversity, and disability services. From 2008 to 2011, Minter served as vice president for development at the College Board, where she led fundraising and strategic initiatives focused on educational policy and college access. Until 2008, Minter served as director of development and campaign director at Princeton University, where she administered the University’s annual fundraising efforts and managed its comprehensive campaign.

A Yale graduate, Minter earned an MFA from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She has served in leadership roles for the Isles, Inc.; Indiana University’s Women’s Philanthropy Institute, and the Princeton Area Community Foundation’s Fund for Women and Girls.

Rod ColónRod Colón Consulting, LLC

Rod Colón has a unique perspective on what it takes to succeed in today’s global economy. Rod shares his 25 years of experience as a corporate HR management insider, outside agency recruiter, professional networker and career coach through an unusual yet common sense approach to networking and career management. His in-depth knowledge of international staffing, recruiting and networking gives Rod a unique ability to both coach and consult today’s professionals and executives around the world.

As an in-demand Executive Coach and Professional Speaker, Rod reveals his depth of his career management experience and shares the wisdom he has acquired over the years. He demonstrates the power of networking as a giving and sharing activity, and aggressively challenges professionals to be relentless in building their networking skills while managing their careers as a business - the CEO of ME, Inc.

Rod is a published author. His first book, Win the Race for 21st Century Jobs, discusses the need for networking and human relationships as a major part of any job search and career management strategy. You can find his career tips and techniques on his website – RodColon.com. Rod also hosts a new and interactive weekly call-in radio show entitled Own Your Career: The Weekly Summit for the CEO of Me, Inc. online Mondays at 9pm (ET) at BlogTalkRadio.com/OwnYourCareer.

Rod is a graduate of Georgian Court University and was inducted into Georgian Court University Alumni Court of Honor in 2011. He has been featured on ABC-TV “Tiempo” with Joe Torres, NEWS12 New Jersey “It’s Your Money” with Eric Landskroner, BRONXNET “Open” with Dr. Bob Lee, LatinTRENDS, Newark Examiner, Princeton Review and has received numerous awards and citations in both print and online media. His innovations have attracted a growing audience of business professionals who recognize and appreciate his gift for leadership, his command of both traditional and emerging business trends, and his unfailing desire to mentor, coach, train and advise in all matters related to career management and personal growth.

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Yvette Donado Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer

Yvette Donado oversees human resources, facilities, and corporate quality and process management — leading a staff of over 400 employees in an organization that employs more than 3,300 people. She also chairs the Council on the Mission, an executive body that ensures the alignment of ETS programs and services with the mission to advance quality and equity in education worldwide.

In more than a decade at ETS, she has created a sustainable talent brand, “Learning for Business Results,” to accelerate leadership succession; consistently increased employee engagement as measured by the Employee Commitment Index (exceeding National Employee Study levels); and increased productivity by incorporating enviable benefits, wellness programs and flexibility in policies that foster work-life balance. She also spearheaded ETS’s initiative to address the needs of the nation’s English learners.

Donado is on the boards of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, Junior Achievement® of New Jersey, United Way® of Mercer County, Hispanics Inspiring Students’ Performance and Achievement, and the Committee for Hispanic Children and Families and is on the Advisory Committee of the Pan American Development Foundation. She is also on the faculty of the Student Success Institute of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education.

Donado earned a B.A. in sociology from Queens College in New York, a certificate in labor/employment law and human resources from New York University, a certificate in strategic human resources management and an executive MBA from Harvard University. She completed the Executive Development Program at Wharton Business School and a labor relations/conflict resolution program sponsored by Cornell and Boston universities. She authored a chapter in The Successful HR Executive: Top Human Resources Professionals on Strategies for Managing Costs, Promoting Profitability, and Knowing the Business (Aspatore Books, 2005). Donado also completed a Harvard Business School course, “Making Corporate Boards More Effective,” in 2009. In 2010, she attended the Teleos Leadership Institute’s program, Executive Coaching and Resonant Leadership.

In 2012, Hispanic Business named Donado as one of the 50 most influential Hispanics. In 2013, LATINA Style selected her as one of the top five Latina executives in the United States; Dallas-based Parents Step Ahead honored Donado for her sustained support; and 100 Hispanic Women gave her its Corporate Partnership award. In 2014, the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce honored her with its Woman of Achievement Award and LatinoJustice PRLDEF gave her its Latina Trailblazers Award. She has addressed conferences at Princeton and Rutgers universities, the College Board®, the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute, the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, the National Hispana Leadership Institute, the International Association of Professional Administrators and Dual Language Education of New Mexico, among others. In mid-2013, she addressed a private-sector human resources symposium in Madrid, Spain, and in early 2014, she keynoted the 45th anniversary conference of the National Urban Fellows. An expert on leadership and self-actualization, Donado enjoys speaking on education and assessments and their role in successful careers and productive citizenship. She is fluent in Spanish.

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