About

Sara Ponce is the designer and founder of MamaYala™ World Cultures.  Born and raised in Puerto Rico, she learned to love her culture and  admire the culture of others. Her passion for education, design and 
the  people of the world merged to inspire the writing, illustrating and designing  of a children’s picture book about Puerto Rico for her 
MFA thesis.

Most of her career was dedicated to the educational field teaching art and  computer graphics design in grades K-12 in Rochester, NY. In the past few years she worked as a freelance graphic designer and was an online  instructor for the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

She has traveled throughout Canada, France, Greece, Puerto Rico, Spain,  and Turkey, and lived in Germany for a year. She has also traveled around the United States visiting most of the states in the East Coast and several in the Southwest. 

Her passion for education, design and world cultures define the foundation for MamaYala™World Cultures.