On June 8, 2018, Karen Aponte Acevedo, defended her thesis titled ¿Y cuál de estas soy yo?: Hacia una forma culturalmente arraigada y contextualizada de categorización racial y étnica en Puerto Rico, a translation from English into Spanish of Which Box am I?: Towards a Culturally Grounded, Contextually Meaningful Method of Racial and Ethnic Categorization in Puerto Rico by Isar P. Godreau y Carlos Vargas-Ramos.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Aurora Lauzardo, Ph.D., Alejandro Álvarez Nieves, Ph.D., thesis advisor Yvette Torres, Ph.D., awarded her thesis the grade sobresaliente.