Hermano Daniel Rivera is in New York City still with Marsh. Danny has climbed the corporate ladder to earn himself the position of Vice President and has even come to Dartmouth to help Marsh recruit new talent.
Hermano Ernesto Cuevas calls Atlanta home these days. Being in Atlanta allows him to be close to his son and he has really made a splash there. After a few years after graduation working with graphic design in New Hampshire and Atlanta, Ernesto recently finally took the next big step and started his own art design company. Through his connections and hard work in the community there, Ernesto is now on the board of trustees of the Georgia Hispanic Network. Ernesto's biggest news is that recently he got engaged to his long time girlfriend Vanessa Durand '03 of the founding line of Dartmouth's Sigma Lambda Upsilon Sorority, Alpha Beta Colony. Though they haven't set a date yet, we are all excited to be on the guest list for the wedding and wish them nothing but the best!
Hermano Fernando Diaz now owns a cozy condominium in Connecticut. Fernando is also climbing the corporate ladder by studying for his MBA on Saturdays while working his full time job that he landed fresh out of Dartmouth and funded his condo. Recently he was also elected director of communications for DALA, the Dartmouth Latino alumni network.
Hermano Rolando Lopez is in Texas doing the white picket fence life in his house with his wife, Laura Lopez '01. Recently Rolando's work got him on a new project designing interactive handheld interfaces for museum tours. Several other Alumni got a free sample of this new technology thanks to Rolando. His company is being contracted through the University of Texas and he hopes this will be a sample of more great innovations to come in his work, which will be taking him all over the country to present this new project.
The west coast is home to two of our alumni, Hermanos Tyonek Ogemageshig and Genaro Bugarin. Tyonek is doing what he does best working for the native community there with education and structural logistics. Genaro is paying the bills with his engineering knowledge from his two degrees at Dartmouth. Genaro hopes his work experience will be a springboard for a master's degree in engineering.
Hermano Gerardo Carfagno recently dropped many of us a line with a much-appreciated update. Gerardo is at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, still working hard away at his PhD in Biology. Recently, Gerardo was in charge of a crew of seven working in the field chasing snakes. This January Gerardo expects to be presenting his doctoral thesis and soon enough defending his PhD. Who knows, maybe Gerardo will be the first Hermano to come back to Dartmouth as a professor; he always was better with the cold than the rest of us!
Hermano Ali Rashid is far from the cold in sunny Miami, FL where he is a few months away from completing his MS in Biomedical Sciences at Barry University. This December he hopes to send in applications for internships he wants to work while applying to medical school the following year. He recently also picked up some research that will be published very soon, hopefully with his name on it.
Hermano Omar Rashid is finishing the law part of his MD/JD studies in North Carolina at Duke University. His studies first took him to health law and now they have lead him back to his long time passion, civil rights. As Director of Expansion in North Carolina for National Council of LUL, Omar has served as alumni advisor for the Duke and UNC Chapel Hill Chapters of LUL (Rho and Alpha Iota) and as such has recently been meeting with Duke and UNC administrators as well as the governor of North Carolina on the status of civil rights for Latinos in the area.