A native of Long Island, Doreen has spent decades of her life in Madrid. She earned her B.S. in French and Spanish language and culture from Georgetown University, one Masters in European Integration from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and another in Economics from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. She has taught courses on Spanish history and culture and European Integration on the American University, University of Southern California (USC), Suffolk University and Endicott College/CIS study abroad programs in Madrid. Her courses on Spanish history include academic tours of Madrid as well as several other Spanish cities. From 2008-2016, she taught History and Culture of Spain and Latin America, at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Based on her experience of the final years of the Franco regime, she is currently writing a memoir on Spain and the United States in the early 1970s. Madrid and Granada are the loves of her life, but she spends much time in a migrant shepherds’ village in the Gredos Mountains where she, her husband have restored 200 year old stone house and whose villagers have become their second family.