Meet Our Team

Our founder is a native Spanish speaker, who demonstrated an interest in foreign languages and cultures at an early age while attending a bilingual elementary school.  During her years in high school, she challenged Spanish proficiency, composition and literature classes, which helped her to accelerate her College studies.  She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business with a Minor in Spanish, and gained tutorial experience as a Spanish Tutor during her College years.  After earning her degree, she worked with Maquiladoras (assembly companies) at the Mexican border, where she assisted with language translation.  She implemented bilingual programs and operating procedures in Spanish.   

Her interest in foreign languages kept increasing, and attended Middlebury Language Schools – where she was immersed in a foreign language and became fluent in German.  In addition, she earned a Master’s Degree of Arts in Global Logistics, which expanded her horizon, and provided her with an opportunity to teach global logistics at a business institute, where she developed a systematic and structured learning program for the students to prepare them for their certification.

Lastly, as a green coffee importer, she had the pleasure to work closely with native Spanish-speakers in their countries such as Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, etc.  By traveling to small villages and working together with green coffee growers in these various Spanish-speaking countries, she fully familiarized herself with their culture, local customs and etiquette. 

Aura is a Spanish speaking native, who was raised in Guatemala City.  She studied accounting at San Carlos University in Guatemala City.  While studying, she had the opportunity to work as a Teacher’s Aid at an elementary school in Puerto Barrio.  Years later, she moved to California and continued working with kids.  As a volunteer at a pre-school and elementary school, she enjoyed helping kids learn the Spanish basics by reading stories to them. 

Aura is a mother of three lovely daughters who are bilingual in English and Spanish. At home, she immersed her daughters in a Spanish conversational environment and engaged them in the Hispanic culture, which helped her daughters become fluent in Spanish. 

During the Pandemic, Aura worked as a private Spanish tutor for young kids.  She developed a fun and interactive Spanish immersion plan to help them with vocabulary and pronunciation.  With her patience, high energy, positive attitude and kindness she was able to connect easily with the children, and create a great Spanish experience for both the kids and their parents. 

Blanca is a native Spanish speaker, who learned English as a second language and became fluent in a short period of time.  Her experience in learning English as a second language ignited her passion in languages. During high school, she took several courses in child development, which led her to study further in College, and earn her Associate Degree in Early Childhood Education. 

Furthermore, she gained her early working experience at various Montessori schools, and later taught Spanish at Christian schools. She continued her education by obtaining her Teaching credentials. She now holds a Master Teaching credential. 

Overall, Blanca has worked with kids from toddlers to 3rd graders for 22 years in a bilingual setting in English and Spanish.  Her interest in expanding her communication with others not only by speaking the language but speaking with gestures increased and she became proficient in sign language.  She is passionate about teaching kids, which results in a fun, creative environment for kids.