SAC校友亮点:安娜·布斯塔曼特

A self-described ‘activist behind the scenes,’ Anna Uriegas Bustamante has spent the majority of her life advocating for her community and educating future generations. She has been an educator in the Southside Independent School 区 (SISD) for 35 years and has served on the 澳门新葡京博彩区 Board of Trustees since 2008.

The second oldest of six children, Bustamante grew up in a musical household. Both her parents played accordion and loved to sing.  她父亲是一名手风琴演奏家, bajo sexto player and vocalist in a Conjunto group for 40 years.  自然, Bustamante followed in their musical footsteps by becoming the choir director at her church and forming a mariachi group at her high school while still a SAC student. 

今天, Bustamante teaches classical guitar and leads the mariachi and Conjunto programs at her alma mater, 南区高中, 这九年她去哪儿了. 在那之前, she taught music education and bilingual education at the elementary school for about 25 years. While she loves to teach, she also loves to perform and frequently entertains alongside her pupils. In addition to being a vocalist, Bustamante plays trumpet, classical guitar, and some piano.

Bustamante came to 圣安东尼奥学院 in the fall semester of 1976 and stayed for about two years, 在转到德州之前&I University in Kingsville where she earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and music and a master’s degree in educational leadership. “I didn’t know of any other choices—but I knew that if I wanted to become a teacher, 我必须上大学.”

Bustamante claims that her experience at 圣安东尼奥学院 had a transformational change on the trajectory of her life. 据布斯塔曼特说, SAC was the only institute of higher learning offering mariachi as a credit course at that time.  Bustamante and others were encouraged to transfer to Texas A&I University-Kingsville to join the SAC mariachi director as he established a mariachi program at the university. 在A时&I, she performed with the university group Mariachi Javelina and the professional group Mariachi Ortiz, which has the distinction of being the first mariachi to play on the steps of the U.S. 国会大厦. 虽然她调到了A&我在从SAC毕业之前, Bustamante proudly received a reverse transfer associates degree during SAC’s 2016 Commencement Ceremony.

Her passion for music is matched with her passion for serving her community and speaking up for underrepresented people. Now in her third term on the 澳门新葡京博彩区 Board of Trustees, Bustamante represents 区 3 which includes parts of the downtown and King William areas and the South and Southeast parts of Bexar县 up to the Atascosa and Wilson county lines.

准备迎接她的37岁生日^th 教学年限, Bustamante stays busy with the 阿拉莫大学 Board and El Carmen Catholic Church where she has been part of their music ministry, 还有她的兄弟姐妹, 42年来. Bustamante has one son, Alejandro, who is currently in college studying accounting.

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