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Article: Getting to know Melody Rodriguez.(spectrum)(director of the Hispanic Outreach and Leadership at Armstrong Program)
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- September 20, 2007
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When Melody Rodriquez came to the United States from Merida, Venezuela, at the age of 17, she didn't know she would work in higher education. Her passion for human rights advocacy and for creating meaningful change led her to pursue pre-law at South Florida Community College. But, after transferring to Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) in Savannah, Ga., and working as a minority recruiter upon graduation, she decided that law may not be her true calling.
Today, as she sits behind a desk in the administration building of her alma mater as the director of HOLA, the Hispanic Outreach and Leadership at Armstrong Program, it's hard for Rodriquez to imagine ...