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Symmetry: Ximena Cid Builds Community by Cherishing her Roots

August 3, 2022

Ximena Cid at a desk with equipment

Source: Symmetry Magazine It took Ximena Cid three tries to pass her introductory physics class as an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. Most people would have given up after the first attempt, and certainly after the second. But “I’m really stubborn,” Cid says.  She was especially stubborn about passing a class in which she was both the only woman and, as an Indigenous Chicana, the only person of color. “When people tell me I don't belong in places, or I'm not good enough, it really gets me fired up and motivated just to prove them wrong,” Cid says.  Now, as an associate professor and chair of the physics department at California State ... Read More

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