Yolanda Borrás is a Dominican educator, author, teacher trainer, and public speaker with more than 35 years of dedication to early childhood education. She is the founder of I'm Bilingual!® Languages Through Music, which began as an early childhood music program in New York City offering classes for young children in seven languages.

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Her award-winning I'm Bilingual! Supplemental Spanish Curriculum provides teachers with research-based strategies and field-tested materials that support language acquisition, foster foundational academic and social skills, and integrate music, movement, and culture into early learning. The collection of children's music and illustrated songbooks has earned more than 20 awards.

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Yolanda's dynamic teacher-training workshops draw from best practices in early childhood education and highlight authentic songs, traditions, and cultural perspectives from the Spanish-speaking world, rooted in her research on children's music and folklore at the National Library of Spain, the National Library of the Dominican Republic, and public libraries across the US. She has shared her expertise with educators across the United States and internationally, in the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia.

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Her contributions have been recognized by the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an "Outstanding Dominican Abroad." She has been featured in the New York Times, Johns Hopkins Magazine, EdLab at Columbia University, and NPR-affiliated programs, as well as in newspapers and magazines in the Dominican Republic.

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Yolanda earned a Bachelor's in Music from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and a Master's in Educational Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, the International Honor Society in Education.