Sandra Pulido
Spanish

sandrap@maybeckhs.org

PhD, student in Latin American Literature and Culture
University of California, Davis

MA Spanish Literature with Honors
San Francisco State University

BA Spanish with Honors
University of California, Davis

AA Art and Humanities
City College of San Francisco

AA Spanish
City College of San Francisco

Certified Public Speaker

RESEARCH INTERESTS
The creation of masks, LGBTQ+, autobiography, transatlantic cultures, memory studies, trauma, violence, human rights, film studies, contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture

Sandra Pulido was born in San Francisco and raised in El Salvador; hence, Spanish is her first language. Sandra is the first one in her family attending college and universities. She comes into Maybeck with years of experience teaching Spanish as a second language to different levels and cultures. Before coming to Maybeck, she volunteered as a mentor for graphic design classes for novice students and volunteered as a Spanish tutor in each institution that she attended. Sandra was part of WritersCorps, a poetry organization where she evolved as a bilingual poet. Later on, she became an intern for Poetry Inside Out and, through this organization, she was able to impart her poetry skills at elementary and middle schools in San Francisco. Additionally, she helped organize the 7th annual Self-Healing workshop for Healing for Change, a group which focuses on helping women who have suffered some trauma, be it domestic violence or sexual abuse.

Sandra has published poems in several books, anthologies, and journals. She was chosen to exhibit her work at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, has presented her poems at Galleria de La Raza, the San Francisco Library, City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, and as part of Litquake. She hosted her first Spanish poetry contest, Versos y frases del alma, at City College of San Francisco in 2012. A book with her life story and poetry was published by Editions Bellaterra, Spain, 2020. Moreover, Sandra has worked as a Spanish tutor at CCSF, both as Spanish tutor and undergraduate reader at UCD, as a teaching assistant and a graduate teaching assistant at SFSU.

Some of her extracurricular activities include hiking, biking, playing racquetball, writing poetry, listening to music, drawing, painting, learning new languages and cultures, traveling, driving, reading, dancing, spending time with her friends and family, especially her nephew.

Some of her traveling experience include: Driving cross country from California to Connecticut (South) and two years later again from Connecticut to California (North), and visited almost all the states of the East Coast while living in CT; she has also traveled to Spain, Norway, Sweden, Puerto Rico, Austria, Canada, and counting.

Sandra is currently pursuing a PhD in Latin American Literature and Culture with a designated emphasis in Human Rights at UCD.

Sandra is thrilled to be part of the Maybeck family.