Latinas' Resilience in STEM at a Hispanic South-Border Institution in the Middle of a Pandemic

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: Continuing to Heal, Support, and Shape Academic Lives Impacted by the Pandemic and Natural Disasters

Abstract

The arrival of a pandemic has added layered difficulties to the challenges Latina STEM students already faced. In this study the experiences of Latinas described how COVID-19 has impacted them and the strategies they employed to overcome these difficulties over the past academic year at a Hispanic South-Border University.

Author

• Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, New Mexico State University