Maria Fernandez

As a proud Guatemalan I definitely want to go back to my country and work for profound social change through education. I would like to make an extent research on the way education is approached in Guatemala, specially with the multilingual and budget adversities that it faces. Based on the results I would like to help design an educational reform that could be applied to other counties with similar characteristics.

After I finished high school I decided to take a year off and give a little back from all of the good things I’ve received. I decided to go to a boarding school for girls with low resources in northern Guatemala. In this year I discovered the huge gaps that public education has in Guatemala as long as other Latin-American countries. Since then my interest in education system in multicultural, multilingual contexts in areas of low resources has highly incised. I would love to go to grad school and specialize in education systems and how technology can help to bring access to quality education in impoverished areas.