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The Miss Porter's School Magazine, Spring 2022
• ANCIENT PROFILE •
Ana Graciela Mendez ’07
Reinventing local news
The road from Panama
Ms. Mendez was born in Panama to an American mother and a Panamanian father who had attended Cheshire Academy in Connecticut. “Because of my dad and his family, I had grown up with prep school in the back of my head,” she said. Her paternal aunt, Sandra Kardonski de Mendez ’77, shared fond stories about her time at Miss Porter’s. Ms. Mendez gave the school a look, and she enrolled as a rising junior.
