Ashley Cortes Hernandez is excited to bring Latinx representation to the team in hopes of making STEM more accessible to underrepresented communities, especially the Latinx youth.
Cortes Hernandez recently finished her first month as the new assistant outreach coordinator for Discovery Outreach.
“I wanted to pursue outreach after graduate school because I wanted to be part of a community that brought STEM to a broader audience and made it accessible to everyone,” Cortes Hernandez says. “I really just took the plunge and I am so lucky to be part of such an amazing team that gets to do just that every day.”
Discovery Outreach is a partnership within the Discovery Building supported by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the Morgridge Institute. The goal of Discovery Outreach is to share science with the public and to empower researchers to be able to share their work. They also partner with community centers to do events like after school programs and family science initiatives.
In 2020-21, Discovery Outreach has continued to provide programming to the community virtually by having field trips, the annual Wisconsin Science festival and Saturday Science all online.
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