A fellow Yale secret society member said Ron DeSantis rolled his eyes when she talked about her upbringing as a Hispanic girl in Texas: 'It was like I wasn't worth listening to'

• Ron DeSantis is a member of St. Elmo, a secret society he joined while a student at Yale University.
• A fellow member told The Times that DeSantis rolled his eyes when she told her life story to the group.
• DeSantis often speaks to GOP audiences about what he felt was an overly liberal environment at Yale.

As an undergraduate at Yale University, Ron DeSantis joined St. Elmo, one of the school's secret societies.

Every week, DeSantis and the members of his diverse society class met for dinner at a townhouse near campus in New Haven, Connecticut, where they would each speak at-length about their backgrounds — in a ritual that could take several hours.