Raquel Huerta is an Educational Services Consultant with CORE. Raquel is a Southern California Latina native with over 15 years of education experience. She earned her BA in History at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, her MA in Special Education at San Francisco State University and is completing her Administrator’s Credential in the inaugural Diversity Leadership Institute Cohort through Loyola Marymount University. She started her career as a middle school teacher in a private school in San Diego County. In 2008, Raquel moved to the Bay Area to develop her teaching practice as a special education high school teacher. She returned to teaching middle school students in 2012 as a special education case manager and interventionist. Her passion for literacy led to the opportunity to coach educators and district leaders in understanding and supporting students with dyslexia for two years in San Francisco USD. She also worked as a literacy specialist for an elementary school in the Bayview district of San Francisco. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and Dyslexia Certified Practitioner.