Celebrating women’s achievements

Brownsville City Commissioner, District 2 Linda Macias speaks during an International Women’s Week Government panel March 3 in the PlainsCapital Bank El Gran Salón on the Brownsville campus. The event was hosted by the International Business & Entrepreneurship Student Association and the Accounting Society.
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Judith Arrieta Munguia (from left), consul general of Mexico in Brownsville; Linda Macias, Brownsville city commissioner, District 2; Norma Sepulveda, Harlingen mayor; and Jovanna Rangel, director of Business Retention and Expansion for Greater Brownsville Initiatives Corporation, speak during an International Women’s Week Government panel March 3 in the PlainsCapital Bank El Gran Salón on the Brownsville campus.
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UTRGV alumna Lauren Cuevas moderates the International Women’s Week Government Panel March 3 in the PlainsCapital Bank El Gran Salón on the Brownsville campus. The event was hosted by the International Business & Entrepreneurship Student Association and the Accounting Society.
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Judith Arrieta, consul general of Mexico in Brownsville, receives a certificate of recognition during an International Women’s Week Government panel March 3 in the PlainsCapital Bank El Gran Salón on the Brownsville campus. The event was hosted by the International Business & Entrepreneurship Student Association and the Accounting Society.
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Val LaMantia (left), owner of L&F Distributors, speaks during an International Women’s Week Business panel Tuesday in the PlainsCapital Bank El Gran Salón on the Brownsville campus. Also shown is Fabiola Urgel Caporusso, vice president, commercial relationship manager for Vantage Bank Texas.
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Val LaMantia (from left), owner of L&F Distributors; Fabiola Urgel Caporusso, vice president, commercial relationship manager for Vantage Bank Texas; Karla Torres, owner of Coralillo Cafe; and Dr. Maria Dolores Ramirez Andrade, president of the Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana in Matamoros, speak during an International Women’s Week Business panel Tuesday in the PlainsCapital Bank El Gran Salón on the Brownsville campus.
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Jovanna Rangel (left), director of Business Retention and Expansion for Greater Brownsville Initiatives Corporation, receives a certificate of recognition during an International Women’s Week Government panel March 3 in the PlainsCapital Bank El Gran Salón on the Brownsville campus. Also shown are marketing sophomore Margarita Trevino (center), director of social media for the Accounting Society; and Casey Juarez, a marketing junior.
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