
Aneika J Perez
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Aneika J Perez
@j_aneika
28🌻 #LatinxinSTEM 🇲🇽 🇬🇹 | #PhD student in Geography & GIScience 👩🏽💻| Human and Environmental Geographer 🌎 She/her/hers/Ella 📍San Diego, CA 🌞








I always tell my BIPOC community college students that their value isn’t determined by what university they are affiliated, but rather how they carry their work in their communities. Systems make us think that being affiliated with an IVY League is how we should determine worth.



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-Academia is part of your life but not your life -If you fail today so tomorrow is a new day to start again -Remember to self care, sleep enough & stay healthy -Maintain human relationships -Relax and enjoy over weekends @AcademicChatter @hapyresearchers


A year ago, a non-academic friend listened to a talk I gave. I thought it went great. My friend disagreed. She said that academics are experts at making interesting stuff boring—and that we should all take a speech class. So I did. And here are 6 most useful things I learned.







