As daughters of hard-working, uneducated Mexican migrants, UTPA seniors Lucia Hernandez and Edith Ovalle understand the importance of education.
Motivated by her struggle assimilating to American culture and language, Ovalle was determined that she would focus her career on helping children of similar backgrounds. Hernandez, on the other hand, first developed a love of teaching after visiting classrooms in several schools throughout the Rio Grande Valley. After this experience, her choice to pursue a bachelor’s degree in bilingual elementary teaching was reinforced…
