Please join us in welcoming ADA DIAZ to the Orion team.  She joined us in December as a part-time bilingual teller at our American Way Branch.  We were lucky to find Ada through one of our Orion Gives Back partners, Latino Memphis, where she previously worked as a translator.

Hometown?
San Pedro Sula, CO, Honduras

Which living person do you most admire?
My mother

Which talent would you most like to have?
Sing; I studied piano since I was 8 and I always wanted to sing and play along but I could never sing right

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Graduating university/college at 19

If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
A Persian cat

What is your most treasured possession?
My paintings and an acoustic piano I left back in Honduras

Who are your favorite writers?
I don’t read much anymore, but I am an art lover, my favorite painter is Mark Rothko

Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Sherlock Holmes

Who are your heroes in real life?
My parents

What’s on your bucket list?
Obtain my diving certificate and see the corals in Roatan
Visit Tuscany and Paris
Visit the Rothko room

What is your favorite motto?
“Improvise, adapt, overcome”