Natalie Lawrence is an author, freelance writer, Illustrator, and historian of science whose work has appeared in "BBC Wildlife" and "Public Domain Review,"
Natalie, I wanted to see if you had anything else, any points to add there.
Natalie, please. I was going to say, going back to the robotics, it might be, through modeling processes or using plants as inspiration for robotics, we have
Natalie and RJ invited me over.
Natalia will be in the middle.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: I am Natalie Nuñez.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: --brilliant. I am honored.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Aw, thank you.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: --Latin America, and women all over the world in that.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: So I think I would like to start from the beginning, from how you became the person you became.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: So knowing now the reach that that book has had, would you have done anything differently?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Do you think that the Spanish language has morphed the way that you think, in terms of femininity
NATALIE NUÑEZ: And you've been called "the most widely-read Spanish language author." And you have García Márquez, and Jose,
NATALIE NUÑEZ: And out of all these authors, like José Donoso and García Márquez, was there any on author that influenced, and that you looked up to?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Yes. And did you ever know-- you know them being male authors, was there anything about you that you wanted to share differently that would impact
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Your writing was definitely influential to many other authors after this post-- What they say is that, because my book was
NATALIE NUÑEZ: It's wonderful.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: I do not.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: So including these diverse characters-- Of course.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: --there is a part of magic to it.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Magic to me?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Yeah, it's interesting.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Oh, that's true.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: So I'm curious, because you've had a lot of impact in not just Latino literature-- global literature, in representing the Latino culture and Chilean culture
NATALIE NUÑEZ: The winners.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Yeah, that's interesting to hear-- letters, the stories-- The stories.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Interesting. So here at Google, similar to you being a storyteller and expanding the stories' reach to people around the globe,
NATALIE NUÑEZ: And do these stories impact your stories?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Your latest book?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: And in sharing the stories of other people-- and you have memoirs of your own life, "Paula," and a recent one.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: So you have your family here-- your son.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: You can adopt me.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: And so like you're saying, a lot of us have immigrated over, and it's been the Bureau of just recently
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Yes. And so how do you see us showing to the world that, you know, we've been here long before anyone else, and--
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Yeah. That's inspirational, and we're very excited to continue to build and show the world our identity from the American dream of coming here,
NATALIE NUÑEZ: It is diversity.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Have you ever Googled yourself?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Interesting. Maybe we should try to Google and see.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Wow, so Google has a big power.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Well, thank you so much.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: --the floor to questions from the audience.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: It's always interesting, and sometimes flattering-- I'm sure, with you, often.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Well, sometimes I am asked to speak to Latino youth, mostly, who have either come recently,
NATALIE NUÑEZ: So I do have one last question.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Well, we're very, really excited-- I'm excited, too.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: But does it help, that feeling?
NATALIE NUÑEZ: Well, we're very excited.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: I think we're in the same boat here at Google.
NATALIE NUÑEZ: That's always-- that's comforting.
Natalie is an entrepreneur from New Zealand.