Keynote Speakers
On behalf of the 25th Annual Latinx Admit Weekend, we immensely thank our lovely keynote speakers.
Vianney Harelly
Poet & Visual Artist
Vianney Harelly is a nostalgic poet and visual artist from la frontera Tijuana/San Diego. She discovered writing was her purpose in life the day she won a writing contest when she was in sixth grade and noticed her work got an audience full of strangers very emotional.
In 2013 Vianney moved to San Francisco as a first gen immigrant and student to be able to write about politics in Mexico and graduated in 2018 from SFSU with a B.A in Creative Writing. Today Vianney writes poetry to heal by revisiting old wounds and blocked memories in honor of her inner child.
She hopes her poems can serve as a testimony and as love letters to herself, her family, culture and community to break the generational cycles that have been breaking their hearts for decades so that future generations don’t have to. Vianney Harelly has had 3 published books, two of which were self published.
Alexis Aleman and Irvin Garcia Real
Founders of FOOS IN MEDICINE
Alexis Aleman and Irvin Garcia Real are two Latino, first-generation medical students who are no strangers to breaking down barriers and uplifting others while doing so.
As two individuals who have faced their fair share of obstacles on the path to medicine, they understand the challenges that underrepresented minorities face in higher education, especially in the medical field.
That's why they are committed to inspiring others and increasing the representation of people from disadvantaged backgrounds in medicine and beyond. As they strive for this, the Foos in Medicine also strive to positively impact the communities that have been often overlooked.