Viviana Vela is currently a senior at MIT studying computer science. She was born in 2002 in Miami, FL, and she spent her whole young life there until she moved to Cambridge, MA to study. She was born to a Puerto-Rican Cuban mother, Mabel Vela, and a Mexican father, Rene Vela and has one older sister, Valeria. She loves reading, crossword puzzles (her favorite is the NYT crossword), hiking, and spending time with her friends and family (and two dogs, Lani and Jolly).
