President Joe Biden selected Juliet García, former University of Texas at Brownsville president as the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. She is the first Latina to lead a university in the United States.
until 2016. At that time, the University of Texas System decided to change direction and tapped her to be the chancellor’s adviser on community, national and global engagement.“Juliet has enriched the lives of many Rio Grande Valley students, from elementary to college,” UTRGV President Guy Bailey said in a statement. “Her contributions to higher education in South Texas and beyond are long lasting and have created pathways of success among a new generation of Latino leaders.
“The work in South Texas, on the border, is hard to do. It’s very easy to decide to pick up and go elsewhere,” she said. “To get to do it in your own hometown where generations before you have not had access and you’re able to be part of something that flings those doors open is just a privilege. For me, that’s the biggest gift.”fighting back against the federal government“I had to walk the walk,” she said.
“It’s not intrusive and it did not attack the philosophy of our mission, which was to work across geographic boundaries, political boundaries, across the world,” she said.The group of honorees announced today also includes Houstonian gymnast Simone Biles, soccer player Megan Rapinoe, gun safety activist Gabby Giffords and actor Denzel Washington.
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