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Angela Ortiz
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Graduate Research Associate |
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Email: angela.ortiz@asu.edu |
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Office: PSA 341 |
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Phone: (480) 727-0372 |
My name is Angela R. Ortiz. I am from Canovanas, Puerto Rico. I am married and I have a son. I have participated in MTBI during the summers of 2001,2002 and 2004. At MTBI I worked on several research projects including: "Am I Too Fat? Bulimia as an Epidemic," "Preventing Crack-Babies: Different Approaches of Prevention," and "USA the Fast Food Nation: Obesity as an epidemic." The fact that I have had to deal with very difficult situations, especially financial woes, motivated me to study and become a good student at a very early age. In a home where none of my siblings studied, a mother with only a bachelor's degree and a father with only some high school who died when I was fourteen years old, I decided that I would excel academically. At present, I am working toward a PhD degree in Statistics at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona.