3:14

Introduction and Biography

5:26

Act 1 - Early childhood, and schooling in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1970s - 1990s

5:27

First generation college student from her family

8:25

Working right after finishing school, at a video rental company

16:18

Wanting to go to college, but no money to do so

17:44

Act 2 - BS Program at Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua, Mexico, 1996-2000

22:39

Preparing to get a job after BS, and then accidentally attending a talk about a fellowship for graduate school

26:36

Act 3 -  MS Program at Instituto Nacional de Astrofısica, Optica y Electronica, Puebla, in Mexico, 2000-2002

30:18

Act 4 - Politics in Mexico, 1990s and 2000s

33:42

Act 5 - Moving from MS to PhD, 2002

37:03

Act 6 - Immigrating to the US, 2005

37:04

Applying for positions near end of PhD, without much success

39:17

Applying a second time after postdoc

41:20

Act 7 - Assistant Prof at University of Alabama Birmingham, 2009-2014

43:15

Having a baby while starting as Asst Prof! “Maternity leave in the US (academia) is non-existent.”

48:20

Act 8 - Tenured Faculty at U Houston, 2014-Present

48:21

Negotiating strategies: “As female researchers, we tend to not ask for more.”

54:31

Act 9 - Retrospective and Perspective

54:32

Handling failures and rejections

57:48

Handing Impostor Syndrome

1:01:33

Role models and mentors: “The ones that stick to me are the ones that are generous and kind and approachable.”

1:05:39

Alternate Realities: Had she been born in the US...

1:07:24

Constantly filling cultural gaps as an immigrant

1:10:13

Thank you and Ending