Yamile Saied Méndez: Hello. My name is Yamile Daniela Saied Méndez. Yamile is an Arabic name, and because I'm Argentine, I pronounce it with an Argentine accent, the Y like an S-H. So, "sha-MEE-lay"And my grandfather named me. His name was Ricardo, and he was the son of an immigrant father from Syria in Argentina. Yamile means beautiful, and every time my parents said my name I really did feel beautiful.

Daniela is after my father's name, Daniel. Saied is my maiden name, and I chose to use it professionally because I really want to be connected with this side of my heritage.

And Méndez is my husband's last name, and it's the name that I married into, and it also connects me to the Latinx community, and so I feel like my name represents a lot of my heritage.