Margarita Marrero has 16 years of experience in public education with a passion and focus on improving school systems to integrate literacy and content instruction to provide access and equity to English Learners. Her experience includes serving as a secondary math consultant for the Region 19 Education Service Center in El Paso, Texas. She has taught Spanish and math at a dual-language elementary school in Miami, Florida, as well as high school math in El Paso, Texas. She has served on campus leadership teams as an instructional coach for a public high school and as an assistant principal for a 6-12 all-girls college preparatory public school.

Margarita’s guiding educational philosophy is that learning is inherently a socio-cultural process, therefore, learning occurs with a balance of finding and leveraging unique strengths while creating accountability for growth that is culturally responsive to the learner. She was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, and is of Mexican and Cuban descent. She received her Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from the College of Human Development at Lamar University and her Bachelor's degree from Saint Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, with a major in Psychology and a minor in Mathematics. She is fluently bilingual in both English and Spanish.