S3E4: Mentorship Through Community

And we both met when we joined the neuroscience community and specifically through the neuroscience scholars program.

I think that it was such a tremendous opportunity to be supported, to be...

We were both fellows.

We met, I believe it was in 2023.

The Neuroscience Scholars Program really brought a cohort of individuals together that can share experiences, but also be able to bring their own scientific backgrounds as well as their individual backgrounds together and... and to share those experiences to support each other.

And maybe you wanna give a little bit of the backstory for how that brought about NeuroLatine as a result.

Yeah,

yeah.

So, I mean, I didn't mention at the beginning, but I am from Mexico and it was actually the first time that I met other neuroscientists from Mexico through the Neuroscience Scholars Program.

And of course, from all over Latin America and the Caribbean.

And so, For us, when we met at the Neuroscience Scholars Program, it was me, Francisco, and our other co-founders, Daniela, Mini, Fernanda.

And I always like to say, it was like putting together the Avengers when this idea came along of creating NeuroLatine.

And the reason why we wanted to make NeuroLatine Which, you know, at that time of when we were thinking about it, it was primarily because we knew that we were going to have the opportunity to come back for the Society for Neuroscience in the upcoming year.

The next year was going to be in Chicago.

We all met in the Washington, D.C. conference.

And so we felt that, oh, wow, like Chicago, heavily Latino population, heavy Mexican representation, Puerto Rican representation, just like all around us.

And we were like, we need to have... an event that brings together people who are Latino into a common space.

And so we got our thoughts together and we were like, what can we do? And then, yeah, I handed off to Francisco to talk about what we did.