PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Freelance Translator 2007- present
Translation of academic papers, brochures, documents, websites, power point presentations, forms, and advertisements from English to Spanish.

Graduate Assistant
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 2007
Dr. Ellen Riojas Clark
Assisted professor with the design and logistics of a graduate level summer course half of the time in the United States and half in Mexico. Part of my duties were: Research sources in schools and universities in Mexico that could offer lectures and opportunities to observe and know in depth the Mexican school system, and coordinated all elements of lodging and transportation.

Editor: Television section
Meximerica Media Inc. (Founding editorial member of RUMBO newspapers). San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Rio Grande Valley, TX 2004- 2006
In charge of selecting the news articles about Television to be published in the Entertainment section. Additional duties: rewriting articles, interviewing celebrities and public figures, writing columns, and fact checker.

Reader Grader 1
UTSA San Antonio, TX 2004
Dr. Armando Trujillo
My duties: assist the professor with grading, organization of absences lists, and to grade student’s assignments.

Reporter, Editor
Vanguardia Newspaper, Saltillo, Mexico, 1991-2003
During the first years I was in charge of reporting, writing and editing material to be published in the entertainment section. During the years I worked in the newspaper the entertainment section grew from one page to an independent section of six pages. As the section grew there were more people working in it and the duties changed. During this time I was in charge of assign stories to the two reporters, wrote and edited articles, and supervised the section process.

Reporter
American Media (MIRA Magazine), Miami, FL. 2002
Schedule and  interviews of Latino celebrities, research and verification of data, covered any entertainment events, and write articles about them.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Article reviewer, De Raiz Diversa: Revista Revista Especializada en Estudios Latinoamericanos. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), reviewed article on women migration, June 2019.

Article reviewer, Forum: Revista Departamento de Ciencia Política. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL), reviewed article on immigration, July 2019.