On Friday, December 20, 2024, Viviana Cintrón Ortiz defended her thesis titled Language Attitudes of Spanish Speakers in New England, a translation from Spanish into English of Las actitudes lingüísticas de los hispanohablantes en el territorio de Nueva Inglaterra, Estados Unidos by Estela Calero Hernández.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Aurora Lauzardo, Ph. D., Alma Simounet Bey, Ph. D., and thesis advisor David Auerbach, Ph. D., awarded her thesis the grade sobresaliente con recomendación para publicar.