Class of: 1978

Ixa Blanco-Maldonado

Ixa Blanco-Maldonado (SED’78) of Tampa, Fla., is the program manager of bilingual services at Hillsborough Community College. “Among other tasks, I tutor all the international, bilingual, and generation 1.5 students on campus,” she writes. “My one-on-ones with these amazing students have reenergized my commitment to education and made me incredibly humble. The professors working in the classroom praise the students’ drive to become more educated human beings ready to become involved in our society or to help in the development of the countries they left behind. Even after 40 years as an educator, I still feel butterflies in my stomach when I walk into the first class session every semester.”

From the Fall 2015 issue.