Ms. Aguilar earned her Master of Public Administration in International Management from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Her graduate research included emphasis on gender and development with a regional focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. She is specifically interested in program and project management principles in international policy studies relating to cultural policy studies. 
      Prior to her graduate work, Ms. Aguilar received her B.A. from Colorado State University, majoring in Cultural Anthropology and minoring in Art History and museum studies. Ms. Aguilar's interests include cultural anthropology, and foreign language studies and literature. Her languages include Spanish, French, Portuguese, and she is learning Italian and Modern Greek.