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 Dr. Georgina Pérez-Liz
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ChairBorn in Mexico City, Dr. Georgina Pérez-Liz graduated from the
Medical School of the Universidad Panamericana in July 2004. As an
undergraduate, she volunteered in several medical assistance programs to benefit
the population of two primarily indigenous locations in Mexico. Georgina
performed her obligatory community service year in Tlapa, Guerrero, one of the
poorest indigenous regions of her country. In April 2004 she was the keynote
speaker at a national student conference held in Chicago where she spoke on
her beliefs regarding
human dignity and service. NAEIF sponsored her trip to that meeting.
Thereafter Georgina proposed and organized a "Pan-American Symposium about
Solidarity and Volunteerism" for university leaders that took place in Mexico
City in the winter of 2005. NAEIF was a major co-sponsor of this weekend event.
Following graduation, Dr. Pérez-Liz served for two years as Medical Director of
the Mazahua
Foundation, a Mexican nonprofit that serves indigenous communities north of
the capital. Georgina was named Chair of the NAEIF Board of Directors in June
2006. She is presently working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of
Neuroscience at Temple School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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