She delivered the keynote speech, "Beyond Biliteracy", at the NABE 2014 conference in San Diego, where she was awarded the Mexican Government's Ohtli award for her lifetime contributions to the advancement of Mexican communities abroad through numerous projects such as the Pajaro Valley Literacy Project. A renowned speaker at national and international conferences, she has shared her educational vision. Thomas University in Houston, The University of Guam, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and Fundación José Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, and an author in residence at the University of Texas, El Paso and UC Davis.
She was a visiting professor at the University of Texas, El Paso, St. At the University of San Francisco, she directed 160 dissertations in the field of International Multicultural Education.
In the United States, she was an associate professor at Emory University, a professor at Mercy College of Detroit, and the University of San Francisco where she retired as a Professor Emerita. Ada began her teaching career in Lima, Peru where she taught at the Abraham Lincoln Bilingual School and the Alexander von Humboldt Trilingual School. She currently resides in Marin County, colorado, and has nine grandchildren. In 1970, she and her four children relocated permanently to the United States.
She was awarded a Fulbright Scholars Exchange Grant and appointed a Radcliffe Institute scholar at Harvard University and prepared her dissertation for publication, Pedro Salinas: El diálogo creador.
She completed her Ph.D at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. After a year at Barry College in Miami, she earned a Diploma de Estudios Hispanos with an Excellency Award at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. There she first encountered discrimination against Mexican-Americans, a discovery inspirational to her diversity appreciation efforts. After completing high school in Cuba, she earned a scholarship to attend Loretto Heights College.
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