I was born in El Paso, Texas. After I graduated from Bowie High School, I graduated with a BA/licenciatura from the Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Mexico. I completed my MA at the University of Toronto and a doctorate in Spanish Linguistics from the University of New Mexico.

[My first-born daughter graduated with honors in International Development from the University of Winnipeg, in Manitoba, Canada. She also graduated with a BFA, with honors from UNM. My youngest daughter graduated with honors in Childhood Education from UNM.]

I taught Spanish, Linguistics, Chicano Studies, and Women Studies at various universities. I taught at the University of Manitoba, Northern Arizona University, Texas Woman’s University and Western New Mexico University, where I was a tenured Associate Professor.

Currently, I am a licensed and certified high school teacher at Albuquerque Talent Development Academy, a charter school in the South Valley. I have taught high school in New Mexican charter schools for the past 11 years.

I am just as passionate about teaching as I am about doing genealogical research on my family tree. It is this research that has placed me here before you.