# @penncareylaw on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CP06nP3rRpl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16553701-penncareylaw-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-06-07T17:09:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (@penncareylaw) — https://gondola.cc/penncareylaw

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Growing up in Peru, Mariela Noles Cotito LLM’12 did not have a comprehensive awareness of her African ancestry. She identified most strongly with her Japanese grandmother and had little concept of herself as an Afro-Peruvian woman. Only when she was in law school, where she was one of just two Afro-Peruvian students in the department, did this change. “I discovered what it meant to be Black in Peru,” she says.

Today, Noles Cotito is a Professor at the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima and also works as a consultant to the national government on issues related to minority rights. Read more at the link in our profile.

#pennlaw #pennlawlife #pennlawalumni

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