Professor Rey-Montejo is originally from Barcelona, Spain. She is currently teaching at the University of Saint Thomas in the U.S. Her courses focus on issues of race, gender, identity, and social inequality in twentieth and twenty-first century Latin-America and the Caribbean. She has published and presented on numerous international conferences on topics related to Hispanic Caribbean narrative, Caribbean Diaspora in the U.S, and Afro-Latino studies. Considering the challenges faced by students in the classroom when learning a second language, her current research interest is closely related to how technology affects youth’s brain development and how to better support 2e students at the college level.