On Tuesday, May 12, 2026, Amaya Enya Ortiz Rodríguez defended her thesis titled Secretos tropicales: refugiados del Holocausto en Cuba, a translation from English into Spanish of Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Aurora Lauzardo Ugarte, Ph. D., Prof. Pabsi González Irizarry, and thesis advisor Alejandro Álvarez Nieves, Ph. D., awarded her thesis the grade sobresaliente.