“Women, Danger, and Mystery”, with Xiomara Rodriguez
Xiomara Rodriguez is a 74-year-young woman with a dream. She was born in San Juan Puerto Rico and lived there until the age of 27 when she came to Mainland USA.
She retired from the U.S. Coast Guard after serving 20 years, ten of which she served as a Special Agent with the Coast Guard Investigative Service. She was the first Hispanic female to become a Special Agent with the CGIS.
After her retirement from the Coast Guard, she did many things, but one of her proudest achievements was that on April 1, 2014, she co-founded Tu Casa Latina, a non-profit organization geared toward helping immigrant women, men and children who are victims of domestic violence, violent crimes and human trafficking in Northern Nevada, with immigration help and referrals so they can stay in the USA and build a better life.
Since the age of 9, she dreamed of being a writer. She published some short stories and poems in various college magazines, in some online magazines and some of her poetry was published in Nuestro Magazine. She is a wife; and has been married for 42 years; she is a mother of two outstanding women; a grandmother of two and a great grandmother of six.
Xiomara Rodriguez studied History and Theater at the University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Sociology at George Mason University in Virginia and Paralegal at the Truckee Meadows Community College. She has just completed the third book in her trilogy, The Jane Sparks Trilogy. Join us for what will surely be an engaging presentation!
