Global Career Opportunities & Languages is a forum held on February 27, 2007 at George Washington University’s Marvin Center, in Washington, DC. The purpose of the forum was to inform young people of the potential careers they might find that would It was presented by the National Museum of Language (NML), in collaboration with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), and the National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC). This segment is a highlight of the talk given by Maritza G. Gonzalez a Fellow with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, chaired by Congresswoman Grace Flores Napolitano. Maritza was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is a recent graduate from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a Bachelors degree in Neuroscience and minor in Spanish. Maritza plans on becoming a physician with a background in promotion of public health within the Latino community.