![]() ![]() She currently resides in Marin County, California, and has nine grandchildren.ĭr. ![]() In 1970, she and her four children relocated permanently to the United States. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholars Exchange Grant and appointed a Radcliffe Institute scholar at Harvard University and prepared her dissertation for publication, Pedro Salinas: El diálogo creador. She completed her Ph.D at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. After a year at Barry College in Miami, she earned a Diploma de Estudios Hispanos with an Excellency Award at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. There she first encountered discrimination against Mexican-Americans, a discovery inspirational to her diversity appreciation efforts. At the age of 15, she traded a quinceañera party for summer school in the United States, thus beginning her life as a bilingual person.Īfter completing high school in Cuba, she earned a scholarship to attend Loretto Heights College. ![]() Born into a family of storytellers, poets, and educators, she grew up hearing traditional tales re-told by her grandmother, father, and uncle. She grew up in La Quinta Simoni, a house owned by the family of Cuban revolutionary Ignacio Agramonte. Alma Flor Ada was born in Camagüey, Cuba on January 3, 1938, to Modesto Ada Rey and Alma Lafuente. ![]()
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