Alejandra Islas

Alejandra Islas is Astro Teacher Ale. She has 35 years in preschool education and founded and directed the Christa McAuliffe Kindergarten, which taught a STEM curriculum. She mentors Mujeres hacia el Espacio, Women Toward Space, which has worked since 2017 to move children and young people from preschool upward into this field, and she has run preschool workshops for the Mexican Space Agency at Noche de las Estrellas and Science Fair since 2014. She organises World Space Week locally, has run NASA's Train Like an Astronaut for preschoolers since 2016, and has been Stellar Judges Manager with NASA Space Apps Campeche since 2024 and a virtual judge for the U.S. Army eCybermission since 2020. She holds a bachelor's in Preschool Education from ENMJN and a master's in Education from the University of the Incarnate Word.