AcademicsAlumni Hottest StoriesCollege of Arts & SciencesFaculty/Student SpotlightsStony Brook MattersStudentStudent SpotlightUniversity From the Rainforest to the Land of Opportunity and Stony Brook It’s as if Rubens Meza Henderson ’23 has lived two lives, both charmed. Now in his 50s, the Peruvian born-and-raised economics major at Stony Brook University enjoyed an idyllic boyhood in the rainforest near the banks... May 26, 20215 min read