Holder of a degree in Sociology, MA in Community Development, PhD in Sociology and Vice-Chancellor of the Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas (UCLV), this woman faces great professional challenges at the age of 39.
“Science allows us to understand, from another point of view, the many phenomena that we experience on a daily basis, and to interact with various areas directly related to society. We carry in hand a set of research and scientific findings, opportunities and insights that can help guide government management.”
More than a surprise, a great challenge
“The candidacy came as a surprise, I was proposed by the plenary sessions of organisations, including the Union of University Students (FEU), and this time I took a place among the prospective deputies, of a municipality with which I have an enormous investigative relationship and at the same time I have been associated with it since I started running the Center for Community Studies (CEC) at the university, in 2012.”
He attaches great importance to Remedios tours, as they allow him to get acquainted with the characteristics of different places, and give him the opportunity to get close to rural areas and scattered communities in vulnerable situations.
“This way I can open up the spectrum of knowledge and expectations that I have for the job, because being an MP represents not just a province, but the entire country.
“Remedios has its charm, it breathes culture, tradition and entrepreneurship, awakening the interest of everyone who visits it in the way development and heritage are expressed.”
For eight months, Annabelle has been Vice Chancellor of Expansion and Social Projection at UCLV and posits that it is “a huge professional and personal challenge, especially because it is a way of connecting the university to the population, something said in few but complex words.”
She acknowledges that her activity as Director of the CEC allows her to contribute knowledge, innovation and science to the development of social transformations and provides the opportunity to create a comprehensive vision of reality.
The possibility of interacting with others and understanding human activity are among the reasons why he always knew that he would choose a profession related to the social sciences.
“I had the opportunity to study sociology at UCLV, when the degree opened, so my colleagues and I were promoters of all social activities, and from there I began to take an interest in the sciences associated with technological and productive processes.”
At her college she was vice-president of the FEU and for five years was part of the university committee for the Union of Young Communists.
He has always lived near the famous Loma del Capiro, in Santa Clara, a quiet place that occasionally allows him to enjoy nature and city landscapes.
She spends most of her free time with her family, who make her routine pleasant: her mother, stepfather, and teenage daughter, to whom she declares unconditional love.
She has no siblings, but she explains with a smile that she loves children and has many “fake” nieces and nephews who often invade her home with childish tenderness.
Reading and cooking are also her passions, though she never strays from her great interest in scientific work.
Sociologist Annabelle appears to be strict and a perfectionist, or at least she would give these qualifications to her when she knows all her professional challenges, but behind her hides a simple person, close, with great humility and always ready to discover the different aspects of society life.
“Now is the time to learn and learn,” he asserts. (Alina Fundora Menendez, ACN)
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