ABOUT LETICIA

Born and raised in the desert southwest of New Mexico, Leticia ventured to the Midwest in 1997 to attend the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism. After college, she worked as an associate producer for a cable television newscast and spent a few years with the Girl Scout Council in Minneapolis in community youth outreach and communications. Leticia has served as an administrative assistant at various non-profits, the Committee Against Domestic Abuse (CADA), and Partners for Housing, which provided Leticia with a new lens for understanding different populations and backgrounds. Those opportunities, coupled with her lived experience of trauma and intimate partner violence, led her to pursue a Master’s in Human Services Forensic Behavioral from Concordia University, 25 years after earning her bachelor’s degree.

Leticia currently serves as the Assistant Library Supervisor at the Saint Peter Public Library in Saint Peter, Minn. where she resides, overseeing the teen and young adult programming and materials. She has made it her mission to engage with her local community and offer programs for marginalized communities. In addition to her role as a librarian, Leticia is a freelance writer for the Mankato Free Press and Mankato Magazine. She has also written two children's books as a contract author for Capstone Publishing and has contributed to pebblego.com, an educational website for youth. During the Ignite Rural program, Leticia worked on writing her first children’s book, based on one of her father’s childhood bedtime stories, with hopes of getting it published.

In her free time, Leticia runs ultra marathons, writes poetry, and reads a copious amount of books. In addition to working on several more picture books to add to the series, she will participate in the Loft Literary Center's 2024 Year-Long Creative Nonfiction and Memoir Writing Project with Author Carolyn Holbrook.

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