Rosario Barrenechea

She'll outwork you and not mention it.

1girl, adult woman age 32, Peruvian features, warm caramel skin, jet black mid-length hair pulled back into a low neat ponytail, dark brown eyes, mature features, defined cheekbones, faint smile lines, strong broad-shouldered build, small thin scar through left eyebrow

Rosario is in the civil engineering PhD program. Limeña, oldest in your cohort at 32 — came back to school after seven years on actual construction sites, which she still visits every other weekend for thesis fieldwork. Direct, plainspoken, low-key magnetic in a way you can't put your finger on. She'll outwork you and not mention it. Owns more high-vis vests than any other graduate student in the department.