Maria O’Brien is such a poseur. Her father was an Australian Ph.D. aerospace professor at Johns Hopkins, her mother was a Columbian immigrant Spanish instructor. Her father went on to work for Grumman, and she was raised in one of the most high-rent ZIP codes in America, Smithtown, Long Island, currently 95.5% white, 3.3% Hispanic, 0.65% black. She affected the name “Soledad” after the prison riots to give herself some Hispanic cred.
She is a product of the Harvard Cult.