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American School Foundation of Monterrey
Ave. Ignacio Morones Prieto No. 1500, Col. San Isidro
Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, 66190
Mexico

Alejandra Cueva

Entertainment manager

Estudió la licenciatura en sociología en la Universidad de Texas en Austin. Combinó sus estudios con prácticas en compañías de entretenimiento, coordinando eventos oficiales de rock latino del festival South by Southwest. Es General Manager de una de las franquicias de School of Rock México y forma parte del equipo de Sanfora Music.

Alex Martinez

Student

ASFM student and future student of Law and Economics. Alex participated in the year’s statistics project on the restoration of the Galapagos Tortoises, and has helped develop growth curves for Cinco Cerro tortoises raised in the Tortuga Center on Isabela Island in the Galapagos.

Beckett Haight

Special Educatior

Special Educator at heart but loves to get techy with it. He went from a Nokia Brick of a cell phone, skipped the flip phone, went straight to the Motorola Click and hasn’t looked back.

Bosco Gomez

Artist and entrepreneur

Emprendedor y artista mexicano. Con tan solo 19 años de edad, se ha especializado de manera autodidacta en expresar sentimientos y emociones a través de los colores. Fue invitado por la familia Slim a exponer su obra inspirada por Checo Pérez en la fórmula 1 y este año ha sido invitado a formar parte de una de las galerías francesas más prestigiosas.

Cristina Obregón

Actress and Designer

Mamá, esposa, actriz y diseñadora. Ha participado en películas, series, telenovelas y obras de teatro. Creó una empresa de accesorios y tocados bordados a mano y actualmente tiene varios puntos de venta en la Cd. de México

Dominique Smith

School Administrator and advocate

School administrator, author and advocate. As an administrator of a high school, he strives each day to make a better tomorrow for each one of his students. He believes every child should have a second chance because each day is a new beginning.

Heidi Orloff

Assistant Proffessor and High School Teacher

Assistant professor at Albion College, teacher and administrator at the University of Puget Sound. Teacher at ASFM, with a Ph.D in biomechanics and statistics from the University of Kansas.

Joshua Leonard

Professor and Research

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineer at Northwestern University. His research group works at the interface of systems of biology and synthetic biology in order to probe and program the function of complex, multicellular systems to develop transformative biotechnologies and enable a new paradigm of design driven medicine.

Leopoldo Cedillo

Coordinator

Padre de familia, coordinador de Metalsa y presidente de consejo de la iniciativa NL 40. Es ex alumno del Tec y de Stanford; su única constante es el cambio.

Luis Susarrey

Lawyer and Politician

Licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad de Monterrey, con maestría en Derecho por el TEC de Monterrey. Cree que con creatividad, voluntad y participación ciudadana podemos hacer de Monterrey una ciudad limpia y transitable.

Mario Gonzalez

Chemical Engineer

ASFM alumni, graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering and currently studying MBA. He work in a chemical plant as a production manager in Solvay & CPC Monterrey. Digitization Mindset has help transformed its operations into 4.0 industry era.

Mauricio Fernandez

Student

Forma parte de la entidad financiera Solvo Capital como socio fundador y por los últimos cuatro años ha sido el Mexico Country Director de la organización no gubernamental WATERisLIFE.

Michael Constantini

Teacher and humanitarian

He was a pharmaceutical salesman in New York City but returned to teaching to pursue a vocation more focused on morality and empathy. Constantini continues to explore different elements of humanity through his work as a Photography and English teacher.

Rodrigo Rangel

Rodrigo has been making YouTube videos for over 7 years. He studied Anthropology at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada and currently lives in Toronto where he still makes YouTube videos, drives an Uber, and trains for cross country skiing.

Sergio Del Rio

Entrepreneur and Designer

Industrial designer and the project manager of Waverly Lab, a tech startup in NYC at the convergence of wearable technology and machine translation. Del Rio is co-founder of several tech startups in latin america and studied and Singularity University.

Sofia Segovia

Author

Comunicóloga y novelista. Es autora de “Noche de huracán” y del remake “Huracán” “El Murmullo de las abejas” su novela best seller publicada en todo el mundo hispano y que próximamente será publicada también en inglés, fue nombrada Descubrimiento Literario del año por Penguin Random House y Novela del Año por iTunes. Su nueva novela, “Peregrinos” salió al público mexicano en Abril y será publicada en Estados Unidos en Mayo y España en enero.

Victor Fuentes

Technology Advisor

Technology advisor for empowering people and organizations to achieve more. He is also a sports enthusiast, and currently works at Microsoft.