Dr. Jesús Galleres was born in Lima, Perú. He studied Law and Humanities at the Universidad Católica del Perú.  Later, he obtained his BA in Comparative Literature, his M.A and PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).  Currently, he works as a Spanish Language and Latin American Culture and Literature instructor at UCLA. Jesus is a skilled world languages educator and has taught K-12 Spanish, AP Spanish, and Latin American Literature for The School for Young Performers for many years, thus he also advises on SYP’s world languages curriculum and making language accessible for all of our students.