Co-founding Dos Puentes Elementary School
In 2013 I was a co-founder of Dos Puentes Elementary School with Drs. Victoria Hunt and Alcira Jaar, the principal and assistant principal respectively, founding teacher Rebeca Madrigal and parent coordinator Consuelo Villegas. It is a public school in the Washington Heights community of Manhattan where all students learn in a Spanish-English dual language bilingual program. Dos Puentes continues to thrive and has a strong school-university partnership with CCNY.
After working on various projects around NYC, I had the opportunity to take a sabbatical year and had the honor of teaching my first university class outside of the US.