when I got to Barnard it was really the
beginning of my encountering with my
true self because in high school you
know you want to be like everybody else
so for me coming to Barnard coming to
New York getting involved in radio you
know in high school I was Maria Hinojosa you know I don't know if a lot of
people knew that I was born in Mexico at
Barnard I became Maria Hinojosa and I was
studying Latin American Studies and I
was on the radio speaking Spanish and I
was doing political activism because
that's what was happening in our campus
and I was studying Latin American
Studies and political economy and
women's studies so I had an inkling of
who I wanted to be but it absolutely
came into focus when I got to Barnard
and New York and just seeing so many
amazing women who were doing it and I
was like okay me too
