She was born and grew up in Madrid, Spain; however, she moved to North America to attend university 27 years ago. She lived in Houston, Texas, during her undergraduate years and attended graduate school in Toronto, Canada, where she finally settled. She has been in the university environment for the last 15 years. As part of her responsibilities as a professor, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, leads a research program supervising graduate students in their thesis work, and serves on several committees. She is a wife and a mother of two boys, ages eighteen and fourteen. She is currently in the planning stage of pursuing a life goal of walking the Camino de Santiago next spring.