Professor Ericka Mein

Published October 12, 2022 at 6:00 PM MDT

**Dr. Erika Mein** is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Educator Preparation in the College of Education at the University of Texas at El Paso, and Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Education.

All the way from Florida, with a quick stop in Virginia, this volume of We Are UT El Paso we are joined by Education professor, Ericka Mein; always surrounded by teachers and school related workers in her family, she has always been interested in teaching, and learning. She developed a special interest in learning about Latin America and had the wish of learning Spanish. This pushed her to volunteer in going abroad on a scholarship to Ecuador where she spent all the time that she was not teaching, learning about the culture and the language.

Dr. Mein is currently the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Educator Preparation.

This interview originally aired on October 12, 2022.