Milca Rosa Velazquez is currently enrolled in an Animal Science PhD program at Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico. As a visiting scholar at Ohio State University, Wooster campus, she is working with Dr. Alejandro Relling. Milca’s currently studying how ewe nutrition during late gestation impacts offspring growth and inflammatory response. She also obtained her master’s degree in Animal Sciences with high honors from Universidad Veracruzana in 2018. Her dissertation focused on the effect of consumption of several dietary fat sources before artificial insemination and during gestation on ewe reproduction and performance, and on subsequent offspring growth. During this period, she was also a visiting scholar at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain where she collaborated on a project that aimed to understand the influence of dietary fats in sows on fatty acid composition in colostrum, milk and piglets tissues. Finally, Milca holds a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science from the University of Puerto Rico. As an undergraduate, her research poster was awarded 1st place at the National Society for Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences. Moreover, she received a competitive scholarship from the Research and Education in Engineering and Applied Science Center for Hemispherical Cooperation. This award enabled her to attend a University of Salamanca course on Animal Production and Epidemiology in Spain.