The author and artist, Yvette T. Barrett, was born in Los Ebanos, Texas, a rural border town along the Rio Grande River, whose population is Mexican American. She grew up in Hialea...mehr sehenThe author and artist, Yvette T. Barrett, was born in Los Ebanos, Texas, a rural border town along the Rio Grande River, whose population is Mexican American. She grew up in Hialeah and Miami, Florida, in a multicultural population that included Americans from various ancestries reflected all over the USA, but mostly Hispanic. Inclined to study the arts from an early age, she received a BA in Arts from FSU. At Chapman University, she received an elementary K–8 classroom teacher certification. She was certified to teach in the states of Arizona and New Mexico and was a classroom teacher for nine years. As a children’s case manager for a mental health facility for two years, she assisted the psychologists in linking their clients to community services and helped the children with individual education plans to improve academically and socially.weniger sehen