Andrea Bermúdez has more than forty years of experience as a higher education professor, administrator, and educational consultant. Upon retirement, she was awarded the prestigious title of professor emerita at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Bermúdez has authored numerous textbooks and scholarly publications and has shared her work in culture and linguistics throughout the United States and abroad. Bermúdez, who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is also the author of The Incomplete Traveler: Diaries of a Cuban Exile.