Eliana Elias has been working in the field of ECE for the past 32 years. For the first 12 years of her career, she was a preschool teacher. For the past 20 years, Eliana has worked as a coach in classrooms across the San Francisco Bay Area, interacting and learning alongside teachers. Eliana is also a faculty member at San Francisco City College, a professional development facilitator, and ECE consultant. She lives with her husband in Albany, CA (across the Bay From San Francisco). She has two adult children, and she loves to read, hike and travel. She is originally from Brazil and is currently trying to learn Spanish.