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.

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

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.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.