Ms. Moctezuma has earned a Bachelor's degree and Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA and is in a Ph.D. program in Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York at Stoneybrook. Ms. Moctezuma taught design classes part-time for a year at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. She also worked as a teaching assistant for printmaking and painting classes at UCLA where she was responsible for giving lectures and participating in the critique of student work. Most recently, Alessandra was a teaching assistant and an instructor at SUNY Stoneybrook, teaching classes in Latin American and Mexican culture with an emphasis on the art of those cultures.