B.A., Principia College
M.A.T., Webster University
M.A., Washington University in St. Louis
Cecily Quintanilla joined the Principia College faculty in 2003, following eight years of teaching Spanish at
Principia Middle and Upper Schools. On the St. Louis campus, she initiated and co-chaired the Diversity
Council. Cecily served as president of the local chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish
and Portuguese and in 2003 was recognized by the St. Louis Foreign Language Teachers Association or
her volunteer service.
Beginning her career in Washington, D.C., Cecily worked at the International Management and
Development Institute where she was involved in a major initiative on international corporate citizenship.
Following her marriage to a Mexican citizen, she spent 18 years in Mexico, where she raised a bicultural
family. There she held various managerial, writing and editorial positions with the American Chamber of
Commerce of Mexico. In the international development field, she worked for the U.S. government’s Inter-
American Foundation, as well as Ashoka, an NGO.
Cecily’s translation and interpreting experience includes work for Monitor Radio, a UN periodical, and
various corporations and foundations. She was translation editor for an economics text published by El
Colegio de México, an academic think tank in Mexico City. She also taught in a trilingual school in
Cuernavaca. Cecily has participated in Christian Science Herald radio broadcasts in Spanish.
