Bachelor of Arts,  DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

Master International Affairs, Columbia University, School of International Affairs and Latin American Institute, New York New York

PhD candidate, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Formerly Political Science instructor teaching courses in International Relations, Comparative Politics, International Organizations, Foreign Policy Middle East, Vietnam War and History and American Politics.

Member of United Nations Panel of Experts on Middle East with presentation before the Committee on Inalienable Rights of Palestinian People.

Other professional experience: Director of International Education and international banking

Hispanic Who’s Who in America; Master Teacher and Teaching in Excellence Medal; Taft Fellow in Political Science, University of Cincinnati;

Pi Gamma Mu National Social Science Honor Society

Active in developing and implementing 20 plus study abroad programs to Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Asia and Europe; lived in Greece for one year and Liberia for one year.

Formerly faculty advisor to Model United Nations (MUN) Program – a program that enabled students to research and study a member country of the United Nations and then represent that country in a simulation of the international organization. Students would visit the country to be represented – example of countries visited: Cuba, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Argentina, South Africa, Vietnam, and Russia