Katrina Cabrera received a BA from Columbia College in Chicago in 2001, where her focus was in Fine Arts and Graphic Design. During her undergraduate years at Columbia, she worked at Yollo Calli youth center, a department that is associated with the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum. At Yollo Calli Ms. Cabrera ran a summer program with teens that wanted to learn how to create Mosaic Art. Once graduated Ms. Cabrera started working for the Chicago public School system as the art teacher at Carpenter Elementary School. There she developed the Art Department and began her first mural work, which she then later continued at Ogden School. While working as an art teacher Ms. Cabrera enrolled at DePaul Universities MED program, where she then received her Master’s in Education and her teaching certificate in Elementary Education with an endorsement in art in 2004.

Ms. Cabrera has been teaching art for six years and hopes that she will open new doors for her students to see art as an integral part of human activities, which helps us find creative solutions to everyday challenges. In addition her teaching approach highlights career opportunities that are available in the art field. Currently, Ms. Cabrera is pursing another MED in Secondary Art at Depaul University.