Waco native overcomes obstacles to earn not one, but two degrees from Baylor
…Baylor, joining the accounting program. “Growing up, I didn’t see any representation of Latinos in the business field, not even in movies or shows,” she says. “When I thought of business, I thought of an older white man.” That lack of confidence (plus the additional hurdles she faced as a first-generation college student) almost led Mendoza to quit the program when her grades weren’t what she expected, but she says her professors rallied around h…