The author earned her B.A. in the Social Sciences (summa cum laude) and M.A. in Anthropology, both from the University of San Carlos in Cebu, Philippines, where she’d taught sociology and anthropol...view moreThe author earned her B.A. in the Social Sciences (summa cum laude) and M.A. in Anthropology, both from the University of San Carlos in Cebu, Philippines, where she’d taught sociology and anthropology courses for 10 years. She was a recipient of the American Field Service, Ford Foundation, and Fulbright scholarships before her migration to Canada in 1978. She worked as a researcher/policy analyst with the Alberta provincial government before moving to Terrace, British Columbia where she taught at the Coast Mountain College for 18 years. Retired from teaching in 2012, she has since run with her husband, Anecto H. Garcia, the Roberto and Vicenta Cui Foundation for Cebu’s poor. She has self-published four memoirs available from Amazon and more than a hundred bookstores worldwide: A Teacher Between Worlds (2019), Family Journeys Through Peaks and Valleys (2020), An Immigrant Goes Back Home to Cebu (2021), and On Writing and Publishing (2021).view less