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Luz Inés Tascón-Villa

Global Partnerships Program Specialist

Office Phone: (765) 494-2394
Email: ltasconv@purdue.edu

Lucy holds degrees from Universidad San Buenaventura, Universidad EAFIT, as well as a Master of Science in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She joined Purdue in December 2021 when she stared working for the Arequipa Nexus Institute, and since June of 2022 she is also helping the Colombia Purdue Partnership and the Office of Global Partnerships.

Lucy was born and raised in Colombia,  is married to her husband Gabriel O. Ríos-Rojas, who is an assistant professor of teaching in the School of Languages & Cultures and College of Engineering. They together have two sons, Andrés, MIT’17 and Cornell'23 and Federico, Purdue’20, Caltech'22, who is now finishing his PhD at Stanford. In her free time, Lucy enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, and crafting.