Dorotea Reyna

Dorotea Reyna was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, and earned a Bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin.  Her poetry and fiction have appeared in several anthologies of Chicano literature including New Chicana/Chicano Writing (University of Arizona Press, 1992), Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art (University of Texas Press, 2016), and Chicana/Latina Studies (Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, 2021). 

Professionally, she began her career as an English Instructor at Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville) and went on to serve as a fundraiser for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and for several universities in the San Francisco Bay Area. A primary focus of her career has been on expanding access to higher education by raising scholarship funds for students with financial need, especially Latinos and other students of color.