Laura Arguea holds Masters degrees from the University of Southern California and the University of Southern Mississippi. Her educational background, which includes graduate courses taken in Spain and Mexico, shaped her broad perspective to language teaching. She has been teaching Spanish courses at UWF since 1994, and serves as the Spanish Minor advisor. In addition to assisting in developing new ways to enhance the language program at UWF, Arguea is the founder and coordinator of "Mi Barrio", a place on campus to immerse into a Spanish language and culture experience. As director of the former UWF Foreign Language Lab, she played a key role in the facilitation of multilingual software on campus, besides creating and maintaining the lab web site. She served as an executive board member of the Florida chapter of the American Association for Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (FAATSP). Arguea is the current Region 1 Director of the Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA).