Fun Facts

When I lived in Colombia I was in swimming, track, ballet and I even played the piano! I have always loved sports, specially swimming, that is the one that I took seriously. For some reason I have always loved the water -my family calls me the little mermaid- and swimming was my passion. I took it very serious and I was amazing at it! In my group I was one of the shortest ones, but the coaches would always put me with the taller ones because I was extremely fast. I did many competitions and neve

About Me

I was born in Cali, Colombia, but moved to Texas when I was 11 years old. I attended First Colony Middle School and Clements High School in Sugar Land, Texas. When I graduated from Clements I decided to go to Wharton County Junior College to do my basics before going to Texas A&M. However, that did not occur because I decided to change my major from Biology- I wanted to be a veterinarian- to Bilingual Education.

Therefore, I decided to go to UHD because I researched that it was one of the best universities that offered the degree EC-6 bilingual generalist. In addition to my "about me" my spouse and I have a 7 month old baby girl named Valerie who is the bright star in our lives. My spouse, our baby, and my mother are my everyday blessings, inspiration and joy.

When I started working at Fort Bend ISD Extended Day program, which is an after school program for elementary schools, I realized that teaching is what I wanted to do. I have always loved children and helping people in any way I can. Teaching and mentoring children is my aspiration, making a difference in someone's life will always be a rewarding experience to me.
At FBISD Extended Day program I was an assistant site coordinator and my job was to come up with lesson plans for a certain age group, do the activities with them, and also help the students during homework time. Additionally, I have experience mentoring children, for one of my courses at WCJC we had to mentor middle school children that struggled with social skills.

Throughout my middle school years I found many teachers that instead of helping me understand the lessons would make me scared of even trying to learn them. I hated asking questions because some of them would make us feel low and at some point I started disliking school. However, during high school I met the most amazing teacher, she was my chemistry teacher, a very patient and understanding lady. Thanks to her my school career got amazingly better. Now in college I have learned t