Her 23 years in the classroom span two states and three subjects (French, Spanish, ESL). She has also worked as an administrator and is currently a lecturer in Professional and Graduate Education program at Mount Holyoke College. She received her B.A. in French and Anthropology at Wellesley College and her Master’s in Bilingual, Multicultural and ESL Education at the University of Massachusetts. Alicia lives with her husband, three kids, two dogs and two cats in Amherst. She writes a blog about teaching, Maestra Teacher and is publishing a book with Sonia Nieto called Teaching, A Life’s Work: A Mother-Daughter Dialogue (Teacher’s College Press, 2019).