Building Bridges: The Vision Behind CBESS

Healthcare in the U.S. is becoming ever more linguistically diverse, with many Spanish-speaking patients having limited access to providers who speak both English and Spanish. Yet the pipeline of bilingual professionals—especially in STEM and health fields—remains thin. The Community of Bilingual English-Spanish Speakers (CBESS), housed at the University of Nevada, Reno (through collaboration of the Raggio Research Center and the Latino Research Center, among others) is designed to help fill that gap. University of Nevada, Reno+1CBESS is a pipeline program whose overarching mission is to incre