Barbara Benjamin-Treviño has worked in various capacities in the field of education for 30 years.  She has professional experience in higher education administration, college admission / financial aid advising and career exploration, TRIO programs, university and community relations, trustee and board governance, migrant education, English as a second language, and foreign language study. She has worked at the University of Texas at Arlington, Stanford University, Colorado College, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the Houston Independent School District, and the Brookline, MA public schools. 

Barbara has a B.Sc. degree in Education from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and a M.Sc. degree in Management from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.  She also studied at L’Univérsité de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management’s executive education programs at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.  Her son is in his second year at the University of Southern California.

Roberto R. Treviño is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. He specializes in the History of Mexican Americans, religion and U.S. culture, and United States social history. He is the author of The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethnocatholicism in Houston (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), which received the Fehrenbach Book Award from the Texas Historical Commission. He co-authored Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices (Texas A&M University Press, 2007), which won the Foik Award from the Texas Catholic Historical Society.

Prior to joining the faculty at UTA, Dr. Treviño served as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and lecturer in the history department at the University of Houston. He was a recruitment consultant and parental involvement coordinator for the Houston Independent School District’s Migrant Education Program. He taught high school history and Spanish in the Houston Independent School District as well.

Professor Treviño earned his master’s degree and Ph.D. in History from Stanford University in 1993. He received an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Houston in 1980 and his B.A. in Spanish and History from Houston Baptist College in 1970.  He is currently the parent of a college sophomore.