# Graduate Student Ambassadors
**Source**: https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors
**Parent**: https://graduate.rice.edu/
#### Who are the Graduate Student Ambassadors?
Ambassadors are current graduate students at Rice University! They are a great resource to use when wondering what life is like at Rice.
#### Connect with an Ambassador
Connect with one of our student ambassadors at the individual links below!
Make sure to [register for our upcoming events](https://gradadmissions.rice.edu/portal/meet-rice), and check out our grad student blog [here](https://graduate.rice.edu/grad-school-tips-blog).
#### Our mission
The mission of the Rice Graduate Student Ambassadors is to equip prospective graduate students with accurate, honest information about graduate study. We share our unique experiences and provide informal mentoring, striving to empower prospective students to make the best choice possible for themselves, regardless of where they ultimately study.
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[Robyn Alba](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/robyn-alba)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology \
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[Diana Alvarado](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/diana-alvarado)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Devesh Awasthi](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/devesh-awasthi)
Home Country: India 🇮🇳 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Hindi \
[Sebastián Berríos-Carvajal](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/sebastian-berrios-carvajal)
Home Country: Chile 🇨🇱 | Program: Applied Physics | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Morgan Bettin-Coleman](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/morgan-bettin-coleman)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: History \
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[Eliana Cadena Semanate](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/eliana-cadena-semanate)
Home Country: Ecuador 🇪🇨 | Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering \
[Astrid Campos Mata](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/maria-astrid-campos-mata)
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Rodolfo Cantu](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/rodolfo-cantu)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Manuel Carmona Pichardo](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/manuel-carmona-pichardo)
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: Spanish, English \
[Isha Chakraborty](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/isha-chakraborty)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Bengali \
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[Emily Chang](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/ting-wei-emily-chang)
Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Applied Physics | Languages: English, Mandarin, Taiwanese \
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[Alan Covarrubias](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/alan-covarrubias)
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Applied Physics | Languages: Spanish, English, German \
[Carlos Criollo Paredes](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/carlos-criollo-paredes)
Home Country: Colombia 🇨🇴 | Program: Applied Physics Program | Languages: Spanish, English \
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[Carol De Groote Tavares](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/carol-de-groote-tavares)
Home Country: Brazil 🇧🇷 | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Languages: English, Portuguese \
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[Michelle Duran Chaves](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/michelle-duran-chaves)
Home Country: Costa Rica 🇨🇷 | Program: Chemistry | Language: English, Spanish \
[Enina Egiebor](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/enina-egiebor)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English, French, Edo \
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[Ahmad Elgazzar](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/ahmad-elgazzar)
Home Country: Egypt 🇪🇬 | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: Arabic & English \
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[Gaetano Ferrante](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/gaetano-ferrante)
Home Country: Italy 🇮🇹 | Program: Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences | Languages: Italian, English, French \
[Katie Garcia](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/katie-garcia)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Psychological Sciences \
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[Viraj Ghosh](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/viraj-ghosh)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Bioengineering \
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[Sarah Glass](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/sarah-glass)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering \
[Mingrui (Lily) Gong](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/mingrui-lily-gong)
Home Country: China 🇨🇳 | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: Mandarin, English \
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[Norma Gonzalez](https://graduate.rice.edu/people/norma-gonzalez-0)
Southern Cone Liaison | Home Country: Argentina 🇦🇷 | Languages: Spanish/English \
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[Andrews Gyane](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/andrews-gyane)
Home Country: Ghana 🇬🇭 | Program: Political Science | Languages: English, Twi \
[Daniela Hikari Yano](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/daniela-hikari-yano)
Home Country: Brazil 🇧🇷 | Program: Physics | Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish \
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[Jennifer Hunter](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/amb-admissions-and-visibility-strategy-manager)
Assistant Dean | Graduate Student Ambassador Staff Contact | Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 \
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[Onyekachi Idigo](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/onyekachi-idigo)
Home Country: Nigeria 🇳🇬 | Program: Biosciences | Languages: English and Igbo \
[Alex Jiménez-Martin](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/alex-jimenez-martin)
Home Country: Colombia 🇨🇴 | Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Maranda Joyce](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/maranda-joyce)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Political Science \
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[Salpy Kanimian](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/salpy-kanimian)
Home Country: Lebanon 🇱🇧 | Program: Economics | Languages: Armenian, Arabic, English, and others \
[Natalie Kokroko](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/natalie-kokroko)
Home Country: Ghana 🇬🇭 | Program: Computer Science | Languages: English, French \
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[Vincent Lai](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/vincent-lai)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Psychological Sciences | Languages: English, Vietnamese \
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[Nhi Le](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/nhi-le)
Home Country: Vietnam 🇻🇳 | Program: Statistics |
Languages: English, Vietnamese \
[Iris Lin](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/iris-lin)
Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Mechanical Engineering | Languages: English, Mandarin \
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[Allen Luo](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/allen-c-luo)
Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Bioengineering | Languages: English, Taiwanese, Mandarin \
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[Seiichi Matsuda](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/amb-dean-graduate-and-postdoctoral-studies)
Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; E. Dell Butcher Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology | Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 \
[Danny Medrano Gutiérrez](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/daniela-medrano-gutierrez)
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Fernanda Morales-Calva](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/fernanda-morales)
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Psychological Sciences | Languages: English, Spanish, French \
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[Aneesha Nayak](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/aneesha-nayak)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Computer Science \
[Osinachi Okafor](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/osinachi-immaculeta-okafor-0)
Home Country: Nigeria 🇳🇬 | Program: Art History | Languages: Igbo, English, French, Pidgin \
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[Agustin Prinetti](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/agustin-prinetti)
Home Country: Argentina 🇦🇷 | Program: Political Science | Languages: Spanish (Native), English (Fluent), Italian (Fluent), French (Beginner) \
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[Damith Priyadarshana](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/damith-priyadarshana)
Home Country: Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 | Program: Master of Science in Bioscience and Health Policy | Languages: Sinhala, English \
[Dinora Rodriguez](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/dinora-nicole-rodriguez)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Ana María Rosas](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/ana-maria-rosas)
Home Country: Colombia 🇨🇴 | Program: Philosophy | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Lul Sharif](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/lul-sharif)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Chemistry \
[Jae'la Solomon](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/jaela-solomon)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: English | Languages: English \
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[Arthur Steve Tchoneteck](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/arthur-steve-tchoneteck)
Home Country: Cameroon 🇨🇲 | Program: Statistics | Languages: French, English, Nguembah (my dialect) \
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[Maximiliano Triana](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/maximiliano-triana)
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish, German \
[Akpan Ubong-Abasi Asukwo](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/akpan-ubong-abasi-asukwo)
Home Country: Nigeria | Program: Religion | Languages: English, Yoruba, Igbo, Ibibio \
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[Sofia Urbina](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/sofia-urbina)
Home Country: Honduras 🇭🇳 | Program: Mechanical Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Nathaniel Uy](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/nathaniel-uy)
Home Country: The Philippines 🇵🇭 | Program: Masters of Global Affairs | Languages: Filipino, English \
[Katherine Vasquez](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/katherine-vasquez)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Bioengineering | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Moira Venegas](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/moira-venegas)
Home Country: Chile 🇨🇱 | Program: Physics Program | Languages: Spanish, English \
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[Kadena Weaver](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/kadena-weaver)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Systems, Synthetic, & Physical Biology \
[Caroline Wolski](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/caroline-wolski)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Sociology \
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[Wally Wu](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/wally-wu)
Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Philosophy | Languages: Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Hokkien \
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[Yunjie (Grace) Xie](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/yunjie-xie)
Home Country: China 🇨🇳 | Program: Economics | Languages: English, Chinese \
[Cam Zapater](https://graduate.rice.edu/people/cam-zapater-0)
Program Administrator | Graduate Student Ambassador Staff Contact | Countries: United States 🇺🇸 Argentina 🇦🇷 \
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[Bohan Zhang](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/bohan-zhang)
Home Country: China 🇨🇳 | Program: History | Languages: English, Chinese \
## Alumni Ambassadors
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[Elsa Acosta de Anda](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/elsa-acosta-de-anda)
Home Country: Mexico | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Samuel Castro](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/samuel-castro)
Home Country: Mexico | Program: Chemistry | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Chun-Ying Chao](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/chun-ying-chao)
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Taiwan 🇹🇼 | Program: Civil & Environmental Engineering | Languages: English, Taiwanese, Mandarin \
[Nina Cook](https://graduate.rice.edu/people/nina-cook)
Home Country: USA | Program: English| Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Emily Elia](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/emily-elia)
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Political Science | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Mauro Florez](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/mauro-florez)
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Colombia 🇨🇴 | Program: Statistics | Languages: Spanish, English \
[Brandon García](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/brandon-garcia)
Home Country: Mexico 🇲🇽 | Program: Energy Economics | Languages: English, Spanish \
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[Daniel Gorczynski](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/daniel-gorczynski)
Home Country: USA | Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology \
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[Victoria Granja](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/victoria-granja)
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Ecuador 🇪🇨 | Program: Mechanical Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish \
[Rosa Selenia Guerra Resendez](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/rosa-selenia-guerra-resendez)
Home Country: Mexico | Program: Systems, Synthetic & Physical Biology | Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese \
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[Chia Hsieh](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/chia-hsieh)
Home Country: Taiwan | Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology| Languages: Mandarin, Taiwanese, English \
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[Rodrigo Ibarra Garcia Padilla](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/rodrigo-ibarra-garcia-padilla)
Home Country: Mexico | Program: Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Languages: English, Spanish, French \
[Natsumi Komatsu](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/natsumi-komatsu)
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Japan 🇯🇵 | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Japanese \
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[Anna Lucas](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/anna-lucas)
Alumni Ambassador |. Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Global Affairs | Languages: English, German \
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[Miguel Angel Ortiz Salazar](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/miguel-angel-ortiz-salazar)
Home Country: Mexico | Program: Biochemistry & Cell Biology | Languages: Spanish, English \
[Neethu Pottackal](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/neethu-pottackal)
Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering | Languages: English, Malayalam \
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[Phelecia Scotland](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/phelecia-scotland)
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Dominica 🇩🇲 | Program: Materials Science and NanoEngineering Program \
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[Utana Umezaki](https://graduate.rice.edu/student-ambassadors/utana-umezaki)
Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Japan 🇯🇵 | Program: Chemistry | Languages: Japanese, English \