Norma Small-Warren performing with GRUFOLPAWA at a Smithsonian Hispanic Heritage Month festival.

Planetary science professor Norma Small-Warren (Howard University) is a founding member of GRUFOLPAWA. The D.C. based organization celebrates and performs Panama’s folkloric musical, dance, and carnival traditions locally, nationally, and internationally. Norma is part of a small but active community of Panamanians who have called DC home since the 1960s.