Ms. Correa is pleased to be spending her 19th year in art education by leading the award-winning, nationally-recognized visual arts department at Plano Senior High School for a second year. Prior to teaching at PSHS, she taught at IDEA College Preparatory San Juan (San Juan, TX) for 14 years (2009-2023) and Weslaco East High School (Weslaco, TX) for three (2006-2009). Correa is currently the Arts Chair for the College Board National Academic Assembly Council, At-Large Commissioner for the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Commission, 2023-25 TEA Teacher Leadership Fellow, 2024 NAEA School For Art Leaders DEI Scholarship Recipient and Graduate, Art21 Educator, AP Mentor, AP Art & Design Exam Development Committee Member, and AP Art & Design Early Table Leader. She was selected as the 2024 recipient of the UT-RGV College of Fine Arts Young Alumnus Merit Award and 2024 Pride of Plano Award for Art Education. Correa is a former Texas Art Education Association (TAEA) Leadership Scholar and Region 1 Representative. She is featured in multiple AP Daily videos and has presented at the College Board's Preparate Conference, TAEA, NAEA, and SCAD Workshops for AP Educators. Additionally, she has led professional development for Garland ISD, Pinellas County Schools, and Texas Region 1 ESC. Correa is a former TeachPlus Texas Ready to Lead Fellow and Senior Policy Fellow, was the 2020 Texas Public Charter School Association State Teacher of the Year, and was her campus teacher of the year in 2021. Correa is a candidate for National Board Certification in Art and spent four summers teaching at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in NYC.

Correa earned her BS in Mass Communications and Graphic Design from Texas Woman's University in May of 2006 and MFA in Visual Arts, Latin American Art History, and Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley in December of 2018. She has completed two figural painting marathons at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, interned at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, and conducted research on the Incan paintings of Colonial Peru in the archives of Cusco during graduate school. Correa was the 2016 alternate to the Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program and has had her work featured in regional, state, and national exhibitions.

When she is not teaching art, Correa enjoys cooking, creating, reading, and spending time with her son Jaxin (a graduate of PSHS), and two cats (Purrseus and Night).