September 21, 2005 11:19 AM

Being diverse in Greater Boston
Posted by Douglas Eisenhartat 11:19 AM

What's it like to be the only Latino in a white-only workplace? How might you react in that situation?

Read the illuminating - and inspirational - story from today's Globe profiling Rosario Ubiera-Minaya and her work as internship program coordinator at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem:

The questions from co-workers started soon after Rosario Ubiera-Minaya began working as an internship coordinator two years ago in the Peabody Essex Museum's education department. ''Are you in security?," someone would inevitably ask the caramel-colored, 28-year-old Dominicana. ''Do you work in guest services?"

''They never think I might be [heading] the internship program," she says, ''or that I may be working in the education department."