Michele Trujillo
Michele Trujillo is a long-time Spanish-English dual-language kindergarten teacher at Zia Elementary in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Though the two languages in which she teaches are English and Spanish, Michele has studied several other languages in an effort to understand more about the art, culture, and world views of the people who speak them.
Señora Trujillo has a master’s degree in Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies from the University of New Mexico, where she studied the life and works of Larry Torres, a noted and prolific educator in Taos, New Mexico, as well as kindergartners' interpretation of the common Spanish rhyme "Sana, sana, colita de rana."
Michele is the founder of Maestras Bilingües New Mexico, a statewide organization of multilingual educators. Finally, she is the creator of numerous works of art, many of which reflect her work in the world of bilingual education.