Monica Rodriguez holds a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from Universidad Distrital (Bogota, Colombia) and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Languages (English, French and Latin) from Universidad Pedagogica Nacional (Bogota, Colombia). She also studied English Composition at Dabney Lancaster College in Lexington,VA. She has done some research on Autonomy and Culture. Part of this experience can be read in some articles she has published national and internationally; for example Culture in the Language Classroom (How Magazine – Colombia, 2003) or Using Legends in the Classroom (Hispania – USA, 2004). She is also the coauthor of the book two  of the text  Breaking Through an English Course (UPN -2007).

 Although she has been teaching for eleven years, the first time she came to the United States was in the years 2001 – 2004 to Lexington Virginia. She was a presenter for the Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA), NECTFL and the Asociacion Colombiana de Profesores de Ingles (ASOCOPI). She was two times finalist for the cultural teacher of the year ( 2001 – 2002 and 2003 – 2004) for the VIF program in Virginia

 Back in her home country, she was a Languages Department chair from a Public School from 1998 – 2001. She coordinated the Idiomas sin Fronteras program (Languages with no Frontiers) and Spanish for Foreigners at Universidad Pedagogica Nacional. She was also the main researcher in the project the Impact of the Languages Center at UPN and Students Autonomy in the Classroom at Quiroga School. She also taught for the Foreign Languages undergraduate program at Universidad Pedagogica and  Research for the graduate program in Linguistics at Universidad La Gran Colombia (Both teacher preparation programs). 

Her major desire is to do the best job at York High School and share her experience and background with the whole community. She wants to have her students reach the level in which they actually communicate in Spanish.