ALFONSO CUARÓN OROZCO:
(Born 28 November 1961) – Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and editor. His work has received critical acclaim and many accolades. He has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won five, including two Best Director awards for Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018). He is the first Latin American director to receive the award for Best Director. He has also received Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for Gravity and Best Cinematography for Roma. Cuarón’s other notable films include the family drama A Little Princess (1995), the erotic drama Y Tu Mamá También (2001), the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), and the dystopian thriller Children of Men (2006).
ADRIANA C. OCAMPO URIA:
(Born January 5, 1955). Colombian-born, Argentinian-raised planetary geologist, and the Science Program Manager at NASA headquarters. Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) named Ocampo the National Hispanic Scientist of the Year in 2016. Her work includes identifying, via satellite images of the Chicxulub crater that may have killed the dinosaurs, leading NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto, and its Juno mission to Jupiter. Adriana has previously been named to the Discovery Magazine’s 50 Most Important Women in Science.
JOSÉ CARLOS ALTUVE:
(Born May 6, 1990) – Venezuelan professional baseball second baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Astros signed Altuve as an amateur free agent in 2007, and he made his major league debut in 2011. A right-handed batter and thrower, as of 2017 he was the shortest active MLB player at 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m). His listed weight is 165 pounds (75 kg). From 2014 to 2017, Altuve recorded at least 200 hits each season and led the American League (AL) in the category. He won three batting championships in that span. José’s awards include American League Most Valuable Player and Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for 2017.
SABRINA GONZALEZ PASTERSKI:
(Born June 3, 1993). Sabrina is a theoretical physicist from Chicago who studies high energy physics. She describes herself as a “proud first-generation Cuban-American” and has been called “the next Einstein.” Sabrina completed her undergraduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), her PhD from Harvard University and is a rising PCTS Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University.
She has won numerous awards including the Albert Einstein Foundation Genius 100 Visions Project and was a Discovery Canada’s International Women’s Day honoree.