The Berkeley Lab community is invited to “The Making of a Scientist: Comunidad, Cultura, y Ciencia,” an online chat with bilingual science communicator and neurobiologist Mónica I. Feliú-Mójer, at noon on Thursday, Sept. 19. Feliú-Mójer will discuss her upbringing in a rural working-class community in Puerto Rico and her 17-year career of community engagement, filmmaking, and media relations.

Feliú-Mójer’s focus has been to engage historically underserved and overlooked audiences, especially Puerto Ricans and other Spanish speakers, with science. 

She is the director of public engagement with science for the not-for-profit Ciencia Puerto Rico and director of inclusive science communication for the Science Communication Lab. Feliú-Mójer is also a producer for the multimedia company Wonder Collaborative. 

Blake Simmons, executive sponsor of the Lab’s Latin American and Native American employee resource group and division director for Biological Systems & Engineering, will introduce Feliú-Mójer. The event is part of a speaker series for Latin American Heritage Month, which is celebrated annually from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.

Calendar Feliú-Mójer’s talk here, and visit LANA’s Latin American Heritage Month webpage for more events scheduled throughout the month.