Priscila E. Coronado a Name You Need to Know.

In recent news, Harvard Law Review has just appointed their first Latina president Priscila E. Coronado in over 135 years. This comes after Hasaan Shahawy was elected as the first Muslim President for the Law Review back in 2016. Although Priscila is not the first Hispanic president, the Harvard Law Review had elected Andrew Crespo back in 2007. Unlike Crespo, she has opened up a door for future Latinas in law to be able to fulfill positions of power. 

Priscila E. Coronado is a California- born native from Downey. Her parents are Mexican immigrants and she is the first in her family to attend college and obtain a degree. In Priscila Corondao’s early education she attended Rio San Gabriel Elementary, Doty Middle School, and in 2015 she graduated from Downey High School in the top 3%. Furthermore, she received her bachelor’s degree at the University of California Los Angeles and has worked at the Disability Rights Legal Center in Los Angeles. Coronado is currently involved in many organizations including La Alianza, which is specifically for Latinx students and has a board position in the First Class organization that supports low-income students attending Harvard University. Priscila’s resume does not stop there, as the summer approaches she will be working as a summer associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson which is one of the top-ranking and elite law firms in the United States.

However, Coronado does not want to be known as the “model-minority narrative”. Most of the time highly elite institutions use minorities to prove they are diverse, and this can take away from their qualifications for the position. Priscila E. Coronado is proving the dominant narrative of Mexicans being lazy or uneducated to be untrue. In fact, her story is the counter-narrative proving Mexicans are highly educated and hardworking. In addition, she recognizes the privileges she did have growing up in a well-established community. Furthermore, it should be noted, just being a woman alone taking over a male-dominated area is just as equally impressive as being a Latina in her role.

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