Dr. Maggie Dominguez has over 20 years of experience in education working with undocumented and high risk adult learners. She is a DACA and DREAMer educator and scholar. She is a first generation PhD graduate and is passionate about assisting others pursue higher education and advanced degrees, regardless of their country of origin, socio-economic status, ethnicity, or any circumstance. Her mission to work with undocumented students stems from her experiences with her paternal grandmother, who emigrated from Mexico and became a United States citizen in her sixties, as well as her experiences as a 3rd and 4th grade teacher on the United States-Mexican border in Rio Rico, AZ. Mountain View and Peña Blanca Elementary schools were the first places she was introduced to DREAMers. Once she began researching more and advocating for these individuals, she discovered close friends from college and sorority sisters were DREAMers too; they just never disclosed their status. The idea of knowing them for years, going to college with them, loving them as friends and sisters without knowing their struggles and obstacles, and not being able to help them was unacceptable to her. It became her mission to be someone these college DREAMers could disclose to and seek for help. She is dedicated to helping them become college graduates and legal US citizens.