Veronica Meza

Verónica Meza earned a bachelor’s degree in literature and drama from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with additional study at The National Institute of Arts (INBA) in Mexico, and received an M.A. in Spanish Education from Bennington College.

Verónica is a writer of the cultural and education sections in Alianza Metropolitan News and has been recognized from The National Association of Hispanic Publications-NAHP- with a Golden award in 2009 in the Education category for the article “GED Classes in Spanish,” and a First Place for “El Alzheimer en la Comunidad Latina” in 2015, among others.

In 2003, she created Teatro Nahual, a Spanish-language theatre in Santa Clara County. In 2012, Verónica directed Teatro Nahual actors in Internet episodes of her story Mirela, about Alzheimer’s caregivers produced by Photozig in collaboration with Stanford University and National Institute of Aging. She also wrote and directed two Apps in English and Spanish about the Alzheimer. Verónica is the Spanish Department Chair at The Girls’ Middle School.

She received the Friedel and Otto Eberspacher Award for Excellence in the Teaching of a Modern Western European Language 2020 from the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY.)