Hello! My name is Rachel Cervantes and I’m in my last semester of my undergraduate studies. I am majoring in Spanish. For the first few years of my undergrad, I was in the Engineering/Math department but then realized my love for languages. I have served as an intern in different countries like the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Burkina Faso (West Africa), and France. It is during this time that I realized that I like languages and I then started learning Spanish and French. I realized that language opens doors to communicate with people and it is a life skill that I can use wherever life takes me. I am hoping to get a deeper understanding of the people represented in the studies of US Latino/ Chicano Literature.