Amanda Villagomez is currently preparing to enter her senior year at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Oregon, near the rural eastern Oregon town in which she grew up. She is majoring in English with minors in Spanish and Bilingual education/Hispanic Studies.
She recently went to Morelia, Michoacán, where she researched Michoacán’s rural education system for Socio-Psychology of Mexicans at Universidad Latina de América under the supervision of Professor Joanne Dinsmore de López. Her Spanish professor, Arturo Morales, also helped through his class lectures, such as explanations of Morelia’s murals.