We are pleased to invite you to our Third Annual End of Year Celebration.  Please join us as we welcome and celebrate our Class of Spring 2021, Summer 2021 and Fall 2021 Grads!!!! Keynote Speaker, Teresa Ramirez PhD,  For more information, contact Megan at derrico@sonoma.edu

Teresa Ramírez, PhD, is a scientific influencer, mentor, first-generation& community role model that inspire many to obtain their dreams and goals regardless of any challenges that may arise. She has no limits and mentors many students from coast to coast. Dr. Ramírez grew up in the City of Compton, California, where she obtained an education by attending Compton’s public schools. During high school, she was part of the MESA educational program and received great exposure to team building and great opportunities. She graduated from California State University, Dominguez Hills with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. She is a longtime member of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science known as SACNAS. She is the first from her family to have graduated from college and to have obtained a doctorate degree in Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology from Brown University. Dr. Ramírez was previously the chair for the Mujeres de HACE DC/McLean Alumnae Board. Currently, she is part of the Latinas Leading Tomorrow Board, which is a non-profit geared to provide mentorship to young Latina middle and high school girls to become college bound and exposes them to various college opportunities. Dr. Ramírez is passionate about sharing her love for science and firmly believes in the importance of mentorship and how it can create a positive impact in the lives of others as it did on hers. Dr. Ramírez also believes that dreams do come true when one truly believes in them and is also determined to achieve them regardless of any obstacles that one can encounter in that trajectory.