The Harvard Crimson has elected its first Latina president, Raquel Coronell Uribe, graduate of Ransom Everglades School in Coconut Grove.
The nation’s oldest university newspaper elected Coronell Uribe to oversee the 149-year-old publication, after a rigorous five-week process known as the “Turkey Shoot.”
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“We are bursting with pride for Raquel Coronell Uribe. While at Ransom Everglades, Raquel was an exceptional student, a strong leader and an active member of our community. More than anything, she was well known for her resilience, compassion and kindness. Raquel was diagnosed with leukemia at the very start of her junior year and she missed much of the 2015-16 school year. While in and out of the hospital, Raquel devoted herself to encouraging the young cancer patients she encountered, raising money to provide them with beautiful dolls that looked like them: they did not have any hair. She earned our deep admiration back then, and she has it today. We send her heartfelt congratulations and wish her much success at the helm of the Harvard Crimson!,” said Penny Townsend, the Head of School at Ransom Everglades School.
Current Crimson President, Amanda Y. Su, shared the news with Coronell Uribe on Sunday.
.@raquelco15 is @thecrimson’s next president — and its first Latinx president! I could not be more proud and excited to pass the torch to her and the rest of the exceptionally talented 149th Guard, and to see what they’ll accomplish in 2022 🎉 pic.twitter.com/eTM9MIbn9v
— Amanda Su 🍵 (@amandaysu) November 12, 2021
Her father, Daniel Coronell, is the former president of Univision News and her mother, María Cristina Uribe, was a well-known TV news anchor. Both are from Colombia.
The Colombian American previously interned at Florida’s WLRN and NBC News.