In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, check out this post about our very own Andy Piñon! https://www.instagram.com/p/CF-BcR9F-Pz/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

Andy Pinon, a former conservation intern and researcher at Westcave, is earning her Ph.D. in Geography with a focus in Zoogeomorphology at Texas State University. Andy is highly praised in her field for her accomplishments in the U.S. and abroad, including her studies on primates and other megafauna. Her Critical Language Scholarship brought her to Tanzania in Summer 2019 to study Swahili. Andy’s plans are to use her Swahili language skills to conduct her dissertation field work, and to publish and give oral presentations in Swahili at International Conferences in Africa.
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“I am a proud Latina and first-generation college graduate. My father, Pablo Galvan, emigrated from San Luis Potosí, Mexico to the United States as a young man. He worked as a migrant farm worker in Texas and California. He met and fell in love with my mother who stayed home to raise us while my father traveled across the country as a truck driver. Throughout my upbringing, my parents instilled the value of education as a bridge for opportunity, and hard work. I attribute my childhood experiences, my heritage, and the lessons I have learned to my success and drive to reach high.”