For the past twenty-one years, I have taught full time as a tenured professor at Miami Dade College (MDC) in Miami, Florida.  As a former practicing attorney, I have been able to transition successfully into academia and teach law and paralegal courses in the only American Bar Association (ABA) approved program at MDC.   As an ABA approved program, our courses are rigorous and require practical implementation of legal theories.  Additionally, teaching at one of the largest colleges in the U.S., with an enrollment of 120,000 students in a city like Miami with a large immigrant population, I have had the unique ability to implement innovative teaching pedagogy.