In 1990 she participated in San Cristobal during The UNESCO Lecture Series The Olmecs and Mayas of Chiapas and Tabasco with the Lecture "Ethnography of Chiapas Indians". From 1994 to 2001 she had been English- Spanish Tourist guide specialized in the Ethnography of the Mayan indigenous groups of the Highlands of Chiapas.

and his research areas are labor and international economics. He was a Border Fulbright Scholar in 1999 at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and he has published extensively in issues of importance to Mexico and the U.S./Mexico border region (immigration, employment, earnings, gender issues, taxation and public finance).

His past positions include vice president for administration and finance and vice president for academic affairs at the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) in Puebla City. Marmolejo has taught at several universities in Mexico and also served as director of the Mexico City
PROFMEX Center (a consortium for research) and is currently on its board of directors. Marmolejo consults for Mexican and South American universities, as well as for the Mexican Ministry of Education (SEP) on issues related to administration and international initiatives. At SEP he led efforts to create national standards for accounting and financial information for colleges and universities. Currently, he serves on the board of various Mexican universities, and the Mexican Association for International Education (AMPEI). He has published several articles on administration and higher education, has contributed chapters in books, and is a member of the editorial board of several specialized journals. Marmolejo holds an M.B.A. from the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP) and has conducted doctoral work at the National University of Mexico (UNAM).

de Mexico (ITAM) in Mexico City, and other civilian and military institutions. Between June 1998 and January 2001, Ms. Salazar served at the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Drug Enforcement Policy and Support, where she oversaw and controlled a budget in excess of $1 billion dollars that supported the Department of Defense's counter drug programs in the United States and over 20 other countries. As a result of her efforts at the Pentagon, Ms. Salazar was recognized by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Hispanic Americans in the United States 2000-2001. Prior to joining the Pentagon, Ms. Salazar served at the White House as Policy Advisor for President Clinton's Special Envoy for the Americas in 1998. From March 1995 to June 1997, Ms. Salazar served in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. Ms. Salazar has also worked and lived in Latin America. In Colombia she served as the Judicial Attaché at the United States Embassy in Bogotá, coordinating evidence and information requests between the United States and the relevant Colombian agencies for prosecution of drug trafficking kingpins. She also has supervised multi-million dollar projects designed to improve the administration of justice in Colombia and Guatemala. Ms. Salazar received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1989 and a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986 and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.