Ivanna Robledo: graduate school and her thesis

UCSB alumni Ivanna Robledo joins us today on the podcast to talk all things graduate school! Currently working on her MA at Texas State in Biological Anthropology and Forensics, Ivanna hopes to use data such as craniometric measurements from Southern and Central American countries to help improve the ancestry database for helping identify the bodies of migrants who died trying to cross the border into the US.  She also works with Operation Identification, an organization who works along the South Texas border excavating and hopefully identifying migrant remains, https://www.txstate.edu/anthropology/facts/outreach/opid.html. Also mentioned in the episode is an episode of VICE on this Texas State Operation Identification programs, found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE3gIqiNKNA&feature=youtu.be. Also big thank you to Ivanna for recording with me!