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ABOUT ME

Educator with a passion for decolonizing, indigenizing and culturally responsive education. Specialization in Indigenous, reconciliation, culturally responsive education.

 

I am an academic and work mainly in the area of curriculum development in participatory action research projects with indigenous communities in Mexico, Canada and the United States.

 

I love my profession and therefore I size it to different areas such as environment, sustainability, art, etc.

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LANGUAGES

Spoken, Read and Written

  • Spanish 

  • English

  • Italian

  • French

  • Ayuuk Jaay, Mayan

  • hÉ™nÌ“qÌ“É™minÌ“É™mÌ“/Musqueam,

  • Nahuatl

  • Purepecha

Native speaker

Fluent

Fluent 

Intermediate 

Intermediate

Basic 

Basic

Basic

AWARDS

  • One of the ten 2022 One World Media Award Listing projects under the Students Awards category "Beyond School" UBC journalism school, global reporting project of 2019-2020

  • SSHRC Connections Grant received in 2022 as a collaborator for the "Decolonizing and Indigenizing European and Migration Studies through Indigenous Storywork Methodologies" project.

  • Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, UBC Department of Educational Studies, in the Faculty of Education, December, 2021

  • UBC President Award-tuition- 2021-2022

  • 4 Year Funding by UBC, Scholarship 2017-2021

  • CONACYT Commission of National Science and Technology Scholarship 2012-2016

  • Delegate of Indigenous people in Latin America for the World Indigenous People Conference on Education, WIPCE 2014, Honolulu, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA

  • Organization of American States Scholarship 2008-2010

  • Secretaria de Educación Pública (complementary scholarship) 2008-2010

  • UGF offered a scholarship award in 2009

  • Honorary Mention for Bachelor’s degree, grade score 9.75 out of 10, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2005

EDUCATION

  • PhD Candidate in Curriculum Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2017 - current

 Dissertation: Undesrtanding reconciliation in the  classroom: teachers sharing their reconciliation approach

  • Master of Arts in Curriculum Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2010

 Co-created culturally responsive math education classes collaborating with Elder, teachers, and math educators.

  • Bachelors (Honours) Degree in Education, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, 2005

  • Early Childhood Montessori studies ages 0-3 & 3-6,

Centro Internazionale Maria Montessori “Casa dei bambini” and “Comunita infantile”, Perugia Italy, 2001

 

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