Victoria comes from a teaching background in elementary, middle school, high school, and adult education settings. She has taught in New York City and New Mexico, as well as Colombia and Honduras. Victoria's research and practice centers around trauma-informed and healing-centered pedagogy, multilingual-multicultural education, and multimodal literacies, especially as these areas relate to the teaching of students with interrupted formal education (SIFE). She is a graduate of the Literacy Specialist MA program at TC and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Curriculum and Teaching at TC with a focus in Literacy Education.