Teaching Spanish is such a wonderful opportunity. I have so much to share with them because of my background.

I've been teaching 22 years, and I've never been to Spain. I'm from a Spanish-speaking country, but Spain is very important.

Our main objective is to provide an environment where faculty and staff of color can come here and do very well and have a desire to stay.

It was wonderful to have that amount of support; that amount of enthusiasm from people who accompanied me and also to represent Stout.

It's been an honor to have been selected as the woman of color to represent Stout.

By teaching the parent to read, the children increase their opportunity to share in the wonderful world of educational enlightenment. In addition to helping the adults pursue higher education and obtain better jobs, their children now have a mom and dad to read them bedtime stories.