Gloria Rodríguez-Gil is the Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, for Perkins International. Born and educated in Costa Rica, Spain and the United States. She leads Perkins International programs in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, as well as a professional network of educators across the region. Gloria has more than thirty years of experience with special focus on visual impairments, deafblindness and multiple disabilities. Gloria founded and developed the First Educational Program for children who are deafblind in Central America, and was also co-creator of the First Master’s Program on Multiple Disabilities and Deafblindness in the University of Costa Rica, supported by the Hilton-Perkins Program. Gloria was recognized for her accomplishments with several study scholarships, and an internship at Gallaudet University and Perkins School from the Blind, and in 1997 based on these experiences she published one of the first books in Spanish on deafblindness. Gloria graduate degrees on Special Education in Multiple Disabilities from Universidad de Costa Rica and from Boston College under the mentoring of program Director Dr. Barbara Mcletchie. Gloria is the author of a number of articles and an advocate and speaker for accessible education at national, regional and global level.