Her professional passions include teaching and researching the latest trends in educational technology. Her personal passions include spending time with her family and researching her family history. Growing up as a young girl in Fresno, she was very familiar with her Mexican heritage, but curious about the unfamiliar heritage of her Nicaraguan grandmother, Anita. In 2003, this inquisitive nature led her on a search for Anita’s long-lost Nicaraguan family, and prompted her amateur career as the family genealogist.