Daisy Indira Barrón

Daisy Indira Barrón is a first-generation Mexican American who was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She has two fully bilingual and bicultural children. She studied a bachelor's in information technology at the Universidad de Guadalajara campus, LAMAR. Barrón holds a bachelor's degree in mass communication and Spanish from Evangel University, a master's in art in teaching with an emphasis in Spanish from Missouri State University, and a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has a TESOL certificate from Cambridge University. Dr. Barrón has taught Pk-master level classes. She has taught multicultural education and diversity for eight years, supervised the Spanish department at Southwest Baptist University, managed a grant with Missouri State University's School of Social Work, and the Department of Human Services to provide services for Latinos in Southwest Missouri; and for the last 18 years has served in diverse Hispanic/Latino community-based and educational organizations in their board of directors. She is an interpreter and translator and has been part of the bilingual programs with the Greene County libraries in Springfield, MO. She is the editor and contributor of the bookA Perspective of Multicultural Education and Diversityy.