Author: McCall Mash and Berin Klawiter

“If it’s not from Bucaramanga, it’s crap.”

It was inevitable that Deyanira Ariza-Velasco, an associate professor of Spanish at Westminster College, would be become an educated, powerful and successful woman.She was her mother’s daughter after all, she said.“She’s an extraordinary woman,” said Han Kim, a public health professor at Westminster. “I think many people kind of underestimate her or they think of her as a foreigner because, you kn...