Spotlight on Harvard in Brazil
President Drew Faust is traveling this week to highlight Harvard’s engagement with Latin America. In Brazil, she is reconnecting with alumni, exchanging ideas with the leaders of local universities, and meeting with Brazilian students who have studied alongside Harvard students or with Harvard faculty in Brazil. Below, faculty members and others involved in the trip share their impressions about key stops along the way. Complimenting contradictions Jaissa Feliz ’12 (left) meets with President Drew Faust following the president's presentation at the Fundação Estudar event in São Paulo, Brazil. Feliz is studying in Brazil. It was Jan. 22, six days before I was to embark on the plane that would take me to the experience that I had been dreaming — in fact, drooling — about since God knows when. I was desperately trying to finish up Larry Rohter’s “Brazil on the Rise: The...