Elaina Alexander - Culinary Arts - Joliet Job Corps Center

Elaina Alexander

Culinary Arts instructor at Joliet Job Corps Center, is a 32-year professional pastry chef. Her educational background is in culinary arts and business, and her specialties range from food service management to culinary arts, to wedding and custom cake creation, to wedding coordination, to sales, catering, culinary instruction and more. Elaina uses her background and education to give the young adults methodologies of instruction that benefit skills instruction.

Ivone Laluz - Academics and Life Skills - Ramey Job Corps Center

Ivone Laluz

is a full-time teacher with Ramey Job Corps Center as an HSE instructor. She has a master’s degree in environmental sciences management from the Ana G. Mendez University of Puerto Rico. She also is certified by the Puerto Rico Department of Education as a secondary school teacher in science.

Guillermo Valentin - Academics and Life Skills - Ramey Job Corps Center

Guillermo Valentin

is a full-time teacher with Ramey Job Corps Center as Drivers Education instructor and has been with the center for 13 years. He has a bachelor’s degree in physical education from Puerto Rico University. Guillermo also is certified by the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation as a driver’s education Instructor.

Zaida Lebron - Academics and Life Skills - Ramey Job Corps Center

Zaida Lebron

is a full-time teacher with Ramey Job Corps Center as a Wellness instructor and has been with the center for nearly a decade. She has a bachelor’s degree of science in industrial microbiology from the University of Puerto Rico. She also is certified by the Puerto Rico Department of Education as a health instructor in secondary school.

Eva E. Barreto - Academics and Life Skills - Ramey Job Corps Center

Eva E. Barreto

is a part-time teacher with Ramey Job Corps Center as a Substitute Academic instructor. Eva has some credits for a bachelor’s degree in primary school teaching from the University of Puerto Rico. She also is certified by the Puerto Rico Department of Education as a history, social studies and Spanish teacher.

Jessica Cruz - Academics and Life Skills - Ramey Job Corps Center

Jessica Cruz

is a full-time teacher with Ramey Job Corps Center as a Special Education instructor. She has been with the center for almost seven years. Her educational background is a bachelor’s degree in primary school teaching from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. She also is certified by the Puerto Rico Department of Education as a teacher of special education.  

Aracelis Arroyo - Academics and Life Skills - Ramey Job Corps Center

Aracelis Arroyo

is a full-time teacher with Ramey Job Corps Center as a Science instructor and has been with the center for almost 10 years. She has a bachelor’s degree in arts with a major in secondary education in biology from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. She also is certified by the Puerto Rico Department of Education as a secondary school teacher in biology.

Vanessa Ortiz - Academics and Life Skills - Ramey Job Corps Center

Vanessa Ortiz

is a full-time teacher with Ramey Job Corps Center as a Reading Spanish instructor.  She has a bachelor’s degree in arts with a major of secondary education teaching of Spanish from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. She also is certified by the Puerto Rico Department of Education as a Spanish teacher for the secondary school.

Neysha Lasalle - Academics and Life Skills - Ramey Job Corps Center

Neysha Lasalle

is a full-time teacher with Ramey Job Corps Center as a Reading Spanish instructor. Her educational background is bachelor’s degree in arts with a major in Spanish as a secondary language from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. Neysha is certified by the Puerto Rico Department of Education as a secondary school teacher in Spanish.