Luz A. Maldonado Rodríguez, Associate Professor of Bilingual Mathematics Education at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, earned her PhD in Mathematics Education at the University of Texas Austin, under the direction of CGI Author and Researcher, Susan Empson. She has used CGI in her elementary mathematics methods courses at central Texas universities for over 15 years. Her research intersects the fields of mathematics education and bilingual education and addresses the need to examine and highlight the mathematical brilliance of emergent bilingual students. Key to her research is the work of building relationships with pre-service and in-service teachers that allow for the development and documentation of empowering teaching and learning practices. Dra. Rodríguez has found that CGI is a powerful framework that has allowed countless teachers access to their student’s amazing mathematical thinking and led to excitement in the mathematics classroom, alongside with deep learning. CGI has been especially useful in supporting teachers to reveal emergent bilingual students’ mathematical thinking. She has been teaching CGI Seminars since 2005.