ADRIANA VILLAFANA

Ms. Adriana Villafana is in her fourth year as a teacher at Holy Family High School College Preparatory. Her career in education upon graduating from California State University Los Angeles, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Child Development and completed a Certification Program in Child Maltreatment and Family Violence. During her graduate studies, she worked as a teacher’s assistant and pre-school teacher. After graduating, she immediately pursued a secondary teaching credential in Science and Masters of Education, from the University of Phoenix. Her first teaching employment after graduating was at a Catholic Elementary School, St. Mary School in Boyle Heights, as a Science and Computer Science teacher. She then went to teach at a public school, Optimist High School in Highland Park, where she educated at-risk adolescents ages 12-20 at a probation High School. In August of 2008, she came to teach Biology at Holy Family High School College Preparatory, where she currently teaches Biology Honors, Spanish 1, Spanish 1 Heritage, Spanish 2, Spanish 2 Heritage, and SHCA.