As a child growing up in Houston with parents who had emigrated from Mexico, Ruby Muñoz Dang’s “whole life revolved around 10 blocks — the church, the school, our neighborhood grocery store.”
Everyone she knew spoke Spanish, and almost no one she knew had gone to college. Still, her parents encouraged her to continue her education, and while at the University of Houston, she met a classmate in statistics who worked at Davis Hamilton, which would become Garcia Hamilton & Associates LP, and told her the firm was trying to grow.