Center for Latin American Studies

LAGO, the Latin American Graduate Student Organization, is a student group that serves as a representative body for its students. It organizes and promotes cultural enrichment, career advancement, community service, and social networking events on campus and in the Washington, DC area with the goal of encouraging further interaction among its students and with the campus community as a whole.

Current Officers

Carl Riemer
President
Duties: oversee LAGO team; ensure harmonious group dynamics; provide support to individual officers’ positions; act as primary liaison between student and administration; manage budget; conduct administrative tasks as needed; facilitate incoming student relations and recruitment; head funding proposal processes.

Carlos Barletta
Vice- President
Duties: plan, execute, and evaluate social activities with goals of CLAS bonding; delegate planning tasks to LAGO members; assist on LAGO events as needed; act as second in command during meetings; coordinate with President on agenda making and approaching CLAS Administration; act as public face; work with Communications Officer on publicity; act as primary executor for elections; liaison between LAGO, Georgetown and DC metro events

Claudia Pirela
Career Center and Alumni Liaison (CCAL)
Duties: organize events that introduce CLAS students to the SFS Career Center and its resources for professional development; connect 2nd years to alumni network through Alumni Coordinators; maintain relationship with alumni coordinator and head of career center; primary contact for networking, connecting, and dissemination of information about greater DC professional community; coordinate and streamline process of CLAS Action and CLAS Jobs e-mail alerts; increase awareness of job opportunities within different academic disciplines.

Fabiana Perera
Communications Officer (CO)
Duties: in charge of LAGO’s Blackboard, Facebook, and Website; primary contact for all materials that reach students; forward relevant issues, emails from students and faculty to LAGO members; take notes during meeting; manages lago@gmail.com and calendar associated with the account.

Gabriela Porro
Graduate Organization and NRC Liaison (GONRC)
Duties: cultivate and foster better relations among graduate programs at Georgetown; encourage graduate students to actively participate in community development; take advantage of the resource that is the NRC; assist on LAGO events as needed; target other graduate organizations to cooperate on projects and programs; approach the GSO with semester budget proposal; promote ongoing SFS events.

Events - Spring Semester 2009

If you would like to contact LAGO's officers, please email lago@georgetown.edu