When Flor is home for the summer, she works with Corazón Community Services, which focuses on education and health services for the Latinx community, especially sex education and health care.

Here in Champaign, Quiroz does some work for the Immigration Project who provides resources and assistance for legal processes immigrants deal with that may be made more challenging by language barriers.

Specifically, Quiroz helps as a translator, typically translating legal documents or informational flyers for events around town into Spanish to make them accessible to a broader audience.

Working there is good for her busy schedule as a UI junior psychology and Spanish major because she doesn’t have to go in person to provide translation services.

On top of that work, her Spanish Professor, Ann Abbott primarily nominated her because of Flor's humanities research projects in the Spanish in the Community Course she teaches. The research topics stayed local to Champaign-Urbana, but included nationally relevant subjects like “what barriers do unaccompanied minors face as immigrants?”

Read more about Flor's award and her surprised reaction in this article by Luke Taylor.