Graduate Says Earning Master’s Was Easiest Thing She Has Done

01 Jul Graduate Says Earning Master’s Was Easiest Thing She Has Done

This interview and story was originally by My News 13

ORLANDO, Fla. — Ana G. Mendez University saw 188 of its students graduate from the bilingual university. Yet for one student, that was the easy part.

• Graduate fled 2 dictator-led regimes
• Arrived in U.S. with doctorate, yet washed cars at the airport
• Had to become a U.S. citizen in order to graduate from a U.S. university

For Elena Tremble, receiving her Master’s Degree in Counseling was the easiest thing she’s done. Tremble fled two-dictator led regimes to get a chance to attend school in the U.S.

First, she left Cuba as a young girl when Fidel Castro took power to Venezuela.

Ten years later, she and her family escaped again when they noticed the same signs that plagued their home country.