Literature, Journalism, Philosophy, Philanthropy… – Atenea Americana

Today we will talk about new and old methods of education. Our guests talked to us from Stanford University and from the University of Texas in San Antonio. Among them, Dr. Belinda Flores, Department Chair, [...]

Today our guest is San Francisco poet laureate Alejandro Murguía. He is a Californian-born artist, son of Mexicans with a life-long experience in writing. In fact, he had recited poetry since he has in preschool [...]

Today our story is about women in leadership, about stepping up to great challenges, about success and about military life. It is also about family and about following your dreams even when they seem big. [...]

Today a conversation with Dr. Carlos Greg Diuk, a computer scientist, and a data scientist at Facebook’s Core Data Science Team, who in his free time has been researching the occurrence of deep thoughts documented [...]

Ex-president Alejandro Toledo and his wife, during a press conference at UN, during his presidential term. Dr. Alejandro Toledo was democratically elected President of Peru in 2001, after a strong fight to restore democracy in the country. Just before he started his term in power, the country had to overcome great challenges. You may check the documentary at the bottom of this post. During his five-year term, the central aim of Toledo’s presidency was the fight against poverty through investment in healthcare and education. He was very successful changing the economic map of the country and achieved many of his goals for education and healthcare. Toledo is the first president in Peru of Indigenous descent, more specifically Quechua. Indigenous people from different tribes are actually the vast majority of Peruvian population, but historically the most marginalized. He was born in a small and remote village in the Peruvian Andes, 12,000 feet above sea level. He was born in a family with 16 kids from the same mother and father. Growing up he held many jobs, like a street shoe shiner, he also sold newspapers and even lottery tickets to supplement the family income. When he finished grade school he was expected to find a job, [...]