Jessica Perez-Maqueda   Director of The Spanish Academy.

Born and educated in Spain, she received her Bachelors degree in Education (1998), specializing in Foreign Language education.

She worked in a Spanish elementary school teaching English and Spanish.

Here in Florida she had the opportunity to teach Spanish for middle school and high school students at a Montessori school in Sarasota.

She founded The Spanish Academy of Bradenton in September 2008 with the goal of helping the community to learn Spanish.

She is a proud mother of two young boys.