- Originally, planned to join the Foreign Service.
- While a graduate student, she interned at the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, Mexico.
- She is of Mexican, French and Italian ancestry.
- Fluent Spanish speaker and conversational in French and Italian.
- Has a son, two nephews and a niece all who live in San Diego, California.
- Resides in Point Loma(San Diego, California).
- Favorite actor is the late, Gregory Peck. Admires his acting, producing and political progressiveness.
- Huge fan of Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (Epoca de Oro del Cine Mexicano)1936-1969.
- Fan of Star Wars and short-lived television series, Firefly.
- Loves dogs and horses, but is allergic to both.
- Active in political, social and environmental causes.
- Admires the late, Joseph Campbell mythologist, writer and lecturer.
- Admires the teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
- Her mother wrote poetry.
- Both of her parents are from the city and state of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico.
- Graduated with actress, Karin Argoud from Marian High School in Imperial Beach, California in 1978. Actor Matthew Modine also attended the same school.
- Fond of the cinematic work of Alfonso Cuaron, Sophia Coppola, Wes Anderson, Kathleen Kennedy, Kathryn Bigelow, Robert Rodriguez, Stephen Spielberg, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Alejandro Gonzalez Irarritu, Peter Jackson, Alexander Payne, Louis Malle, Guillermo del Toro, M. Night Shyamalan, Luc Besson, and Martin Scorsece, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Tim Burton, David Lynch, and Ridley Scott.
- Met Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mexico's first principle photographer, which peeked her interest in the history of photography. Admires the work of Dorothea Lange, Annie Liebovitz, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton, Edward Curtis, Arnold Newman, Yousuf Karsh and Lewis Hine.
- Enjoys art history and architecture.
- Played tennis in high school.
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