“In retrospect Sofia Chaparro’s career as an educator and expert in bilingual education was pre-destined.
Sofia is the daughter of bilingual and transnational parents who spent time in El Paso, Texas and in Juárez, Mexico throughout her childhood. Her grandfather was a rural educator in Chihuahua, Mexico. One of her grandmothers and an aunt also attended la Escuela Normal in Mexico – the equivalent of a teaching preparation academy. You could say education is in her genes.”