Jimena Alejandra Ibagon Pardo grew up in a small village close to Bogotá, known as Choachí. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science at the National University of Colombia in 2019. There she focused her studies on Monogastric nutrition. She obtained the opportunity to do her bachelor’s internship in the United States in order to satisfy requirements for her BS degree and to further her understanding of monogastric nutrition. She was doing her internship at the South Dakota State University for one year in 2018 under the supervision of Dr. Tofuko Woyengo, during this time she learned and achieved different laboratory skills and swine management. In 2020 she returned to the United States to be part of Stein Monogastric Nutrition Laboratory as a Visiting Scholar, this being an excellent opportunity for her to expand her knowledge about swine feeding nutrition from Dr. Hans Stein and to get experience for her future. Jimena became a master student in 2021