Dr. Robledo Montecel holds a bachelor of Social Work degree from Our Lady of the Lake University and a Master’s in Educational Evaluation from Antioch College. She earned a doctorate in research and evaluation from the Urban Education program at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Dr. Robledo Montecel was named a Woman and Minorities Research Fellow by the National Institute for Education. She has served as a member of the Texas Task Force on Dropout Prevention and as a consultant on The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Program in Immigrant Education.

She is an associate member of Hispanics in Philanthropy, a founding member of CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation, and on the founding board of directors of the Mexican and American Solidarity Foundation, an organization created to strengthen ties between Mexican citizens and the Mexican American community.

She has authored and coauthored a number of publications, among them The Undereducation of American Youth, a study of the 16 to 24 year old population in the fifty states; The Answer: Valuing Youth in Schools and Families, which presents strategies for communities, educators, and parents working to keep young people in school and to educate those who have dropped out; and, most recently, Hispanic Families as Valued Partners: An Educator’s Guide, which provides background information about minority families and recommendations for involving them in their children’s schools.