{"id":14350,"date":"2022-06-30T16:31:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/?p=14350"},"modified":"2022-06-30T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:32:42","slug":"virginia-business-2022-women-in-leadership-irma-becerra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/blog\/virginia-business-2022-women-in-leadership-irma-becerra\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Business: <em>2022 Women in Leadership \u2014 Irma Becerra<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrepare, prepare, prepare. Persist, persist, persist.\u201d That mantra has carried Becerra, whose family fled Fidel Castro\u2019s Cuba for Puerto Rico when she was an infant, to the presidency of Marymount University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom immigrant to university president in a lifetime\u201d is an extraordinary story, but one that she credits in part to the opportunities the United States offered her. \u201cWe left Cuba with no assets,\u201d she says, \u201cbut I learned from my grandmother that no one can ever take away your education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, instead of partying like so many students, Becerra \u201chunkered down and focused\u201d on her studies, earning degrees from the University of Miami. Losing everything can turn people into pragmatists, and she followed her family\u2019s advice to pursue a field that had good job prospects, becoming the first woman to earn a doctorate in electrical engineering from Florida International University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI prepared my whole life for this job,\u201d Becerra says of her path to becoming president of Marymount, a private, Catholic university, in 2018. Since then, she has instituted a plan to raise the school\u2019s reputation for innovation and added market-driven programs that prioritize career preparation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love to affect the lives of students and what they can accomplish,\u201d Becerra says, and she believes students can accomplish a lot if they only prepare and persist like she did. \u201cPeople may say no, but you have to be ready to try again,\u201d she tells them. \u201cI look at setbacks with gratitude because each one has made me better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginiabusiness.com\/article\/irma-becerra\/\">Read the original article on the Virginia Business website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cPrepare, prepare, prepare. 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