Dr. Maria Elena Reyes is a third generation, Mexican American who was born in Eagle Pass, Texas, located along the Texas-Mexico border. She was raised in San Antonio and attended public schools. As a first generation college graduate, Maria attended
...MoreDr. Maria Elena Reyes is a third generation, Mexican American who was born in Eagle Pass, Texas, located along the Texas-Mexico border. She was raised in San Antonio and attended public schools. As a first generation college graduate, Maria attended the University of Texas at Austin. As a student, she participated in the Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements. She worked to unionize Mexican American agricultural workers in the Rio Grande Valley. Maria was a homemaker, and for almost ten years, worked as a high school English teacher. Later, she earned a master’s degree in secondary education; in 1991, she obtained a doctorate at the University of Texas in Austin.
After obtaining her doctorate, Maria developed the highly regarded University of Texas at Austin Hispanic Mother-Daughter Program. She went to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in summer of 1996. In 2003, Maria became the first Latina to be tenured at UAF; in 2006, she became a founding board member of the BoysProject [see http://www.boysproject.net/]. In summer of 2006, Dr. Reyes accepted a position at the University of Texas Pan American where she plans to continue her research.
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