I graduated from The University of Oklahoma in 1983 with a BA in Spanish and minor in Latin American Anthropology. Prior to this I lived and studied parts of two summers in Monterrey, México and Querétaro, México. In 1987, I translated some Fair Housing documents for the State of Oklahoma. In 1998, I lived and worked in Ciudad Victoria, México as a English teacher and missionary. I am currently studying at OSU-Oklahoma City in the Technical Spanish Program for certification as an Interpreter/Translator from Spanish to English and English to Spanish.