Gloria is a native Austinite.  She graduated from Lyndon Baines Johnson High School (L.B.J.) in 1988.  She begin her college career at the University of Texas at Austin where she begin majoring in Mechanical Engineering.  After a year, she changed her major to Marketing and changed colleges to Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos.  There she received her Bachelors in Marketing from Southwest Texas in 1993.

 She worked in the Retail Management/Customer Service industry for five years. Within those five years she got married. During this time she realized she was not doing all she could do to give back to society.  Coming from a family of teachers the thought of her teaching seemed to be the way to go. She became more convinced once she had her first child and decided to return back to Southwest Texas State to obtain her teaching certification in Business. After completing this certification she begin teaching at Georgetown High School where she taught for 5 years Business Communication Information Systems(B.C.I.S), Business Multimedia Management and Principles of Marketing.  She loved the marketing courses so much that within those five years she returned to Southwest to complete a second teacher certification in Marketing.

She has now been at McNeil High School for the 4 years teaching Marketing courses begins her 4^th year teaching Principles of Marketing at Austin Community College.  She enjoys her students, what she teaches and plans to retire in this field.