Florin
Najera-Uresti

Concentration 

Spring '20, Migration, Borders, and Identity Studies (Independent Concentration)

Award Year 

2020
Hispanic Federation

Florin Najera-Uresti is a junior at Brown University. She created her own concentration in Migration, Borders, and Identity Studies. Born in the Rio Grande Valley on the southernmost tip of Texas and raised on both sides of the border, Florin has always been passionate about migration and hopes to pursue a career serving the needs of migrants. In the year between high school and college, she took a gap year in which she lived in Germany and volunteered at a refugee camp leading language and cultural immersion courses. During the school year at Brown, Florin volunteers at Hope High School as an ESL teacher's aide and is working to establish a program for Brown University students to volunteer their skill sets to the migrant community at Hope High. Florin is also an avid cook, dancer, and enjoys learning new languages