Zulema Silva, B.A.
Modern Languages Department

Senora Zulema Silva was born and raised in Ibarra, Ecuador. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Education (with a concentration in Linguistics) in 1995. She came to the USA in 2001 as an exchange Spanish teacher in the Guilford County public school system. She has also taught at North Carolina A&T University, Guilford Technical Community College, and The Multicultural Center. She has been a volunteer Spanish teacher in the Guilford County Branch Library’s Uplift Program, where she taught Spanish and trained American teachers to be able to communicate with the Latino community. In fact, Mrs. Silva loves her culture so much that since 2001, she has been doing cultural presentations in places all over North Carolina. She was nominated as Guilford County’s Cultural Teacher of the Year in 2002.

Senora Silva has enjoyed her time at Oak Ridge Military Academy, and has stated that she loves “showing students the other side of the world. It allows me to transfer and enrich my students culturally and in learning a new language.”