Ms. Quiroz had also served on the boards of the Public Theater and the Apollo Theater Foundation in New York. Her father, Armando Quiroz, grew up in Brooklyn, where the two met. In a third-grade report, Ms. Quiroz declared that she would go to Harvard someday, and so she did. As one of the few Latinas at Harvard at the time, Ms. Quiroz initially struggled there. Ms. Quiroz had recently moved from New York to her family’s Denver home as her cancer progressed.

Source: New York Times March 21, 2018 19:41 UTC