Raquel L. Báez is from Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. She studied Dance Performance Folklore at the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA). She learned dances from various regions of Mexico such as: Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Jalis‐ co, Veracruz, Puebla, Durango, etc. She went back to school and graduated in 2000 with a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Nuevo León.

Raquel has been a professional dancer, as well as an instructor during her career. After coming to the United States, in 2005 to 2007, she joined the Utah Hispanic Dance Group Alliance (UHDA) and has learned dance from many other Latin countries. She has been a folk dance teacher at Esperanza Elementary School and director for 8 years and a member of the latin folk dance group, El Camino (which is for children and adults). She has also operated and managed short, latin folk dance clinics, teaching to children, teens and adults.

She offers students the opportunity to learn about the culture, music and traditions of a place, and to feel it and be able to transmit it through dance. Learning the movement of hands and body, facial expressions, and zapateo (tap) will help students express themselves through dance.

Most of all, Raquel wants to teach her students to love latin folk dance.