Casia Freitas graduated from Lewis & Clark College in the class of 2004 with a double major in International Affairs and Hispanic Studies and lots of psych classes. After spending a year working in Mexico City she went on to get an MA in International Educational Administration and Policy Analysis at Stanford University. Casia has carried on her love for research past the BHS Lab and into other positions in the nonprofit sector. She currently works as a researcher at the New Teacher Center in Santa Cruz, CA. She is the author of Bilingual and International Schools in Mexico and Central America, 3rd edition, and numerous published articles and reports.