Gladiliz is a research assistant and study coordinator at CART. She received her master’s degree in Research Psychology from the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. Her thesis work focuses on bilingualism as a protective factor in Alzheimer’s disease. She is an aspiring Clinical Neuropsychologist interested in research and clinical practice. Her research interests include bilingualism as a contribution to cognitive reserve, Parkinson’s disease dementia, and psychosocial and contextual factors impairing cognitive health in racial/ethnic minority populations, with an emphasis on Black Puerto Rican populations. She works as secretary, member, and Puerto Rico liaison of the Hispanic Neuropsychological Society’s Student Association Committee. She completed an internship at the Multicultural Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Mass General Hospital, in which she studied semantic processing and its relation to AD pathology, such as mean cortical amyloid and regional tau burden (entorhinal cortex and precuneus), in non-demented individuals from Colombian kindred with autosomal dominant AD. She is a polyglot; she speaks Spanish, English, Korean, and Italian, and in her spare time, she enjoys oil painting and going to the beach. Gladiliz was also a 2017 Taekwondo National Champion.