I'm a bilingual writer, editor and educator with 18 years of experience in educational leadership and teaching. I currently work as a Scientific Content Writer for the Texas Department of Health and Human Services and a freelance writer. I’m also pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing at Texas State University. My experiences in education include leading a new department, creating a vision and mission to drive our support of teaching and learning, supervising literacy specialists, designing documents to describe and illustrate the literacy vision of Austin ISD, creating and facilitating professional development, teaching with Dual Language, Sheltered Instruction, and ESL pedagogy in grades 2-8, writing curriculum, and managing a budget.