Dorotea ReynaDorotea Reyna was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, and earned a Bachelor's degree in English from Stanford University and a Master's degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin. Her poetry and fiction have appeare in several anthologies of Chicano literature including New Chicana/Chicano Writing (University of Arizona Press, 1992), Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art (University of Texas Press, 2016), and Chicana/Latina Studies (Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, 2021). Professionally, she began her career as an English Instructor at Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville) and went on to serve as a fundraiser for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and for several universities in the San Francisco Bay Area. A primary focus of her career has been on expanding access to higher education by raising scholarship funds for students with financial need, especially Latinos and other students of color. Read More Read Less