Michelle Castro
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Michelle Castro is a Cuban-Chicana freelance contributor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She also works as a copywriter, having studied Creative Advertising at Loyola University Chicago. She has a background in improv comedy and has performed in Chicago and her hometown of Los Angeles.
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Jane Luu is a Vietnamese American astronomer who codiscovered the first Kuiper Belt object (KBO). The second of four children, Luu grew up in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. Her father worked as a clerk for the U.S. Army, and her mother was a homemaker. In April 1975, as the Vietnam War…
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