Maruchi MendezMaruchi Mendez is the author of Finding Home: A Memoir of a Mother's Undying Love and an Untold Secret along with the Spanish translation, Buscando Mi Estrella. She also works as a freelance writer. Cofounder of the JunTos Foundation and a fierce advcate of student-athletes' health, she has received several awards and proclamations for her efforts to pass legislation that raises the standards of student-athletes' cardiac screening. For more than fifty years, she has lived in Miami, where she raised her four children and is now the proud grandmother of twin girls. Read More Read Less