On Monday,Claudia Sheinbaum was voted as Mexico’s newest president following an election that saw the highly-accredited scientist win around 60 percent of the vote. Sheinbaum made history by becoming the first woman president, and the first of a minority faith, in the Catholic-majority country. She is also the first woman president in North American history, after she won against another woman candidate, Xochitl Galvez. But who is the scientist and life-long leftist? Sheinbaum was born in Mexico City in 1962, to a family of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish descent, who emigrated from Lithuania a…