Gabriela Gudiño Gual is a renowned guide from San Cristobal de las Casas.  She has a B.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas, Campus III.  She received her Teacher of English as a Second Language Certificate from International House, Hastings, England.  In 1981 she was Paleographer in Archivo General de La Nacion, deciphering the Trial of Simon Baez, a Jew prosecuted by the Spanish Inquisition in the XVII century.  In 1982 she translated into Spanish the book The Precolumbian Exchange by James Haas (Fondo de Cultura Economica). She is a tourist Delegate for the Chiapas Ministry of Tourism in the Highlands of Chiapas (Founder member). From 1996 - 1998 Gabriela was Municipal Director of Tourism in San Cristobal de Las Casas.  From October 2003-2008 she was Chairwoman of the Chiapas Tourist Guides Association.  In 1990 she participated in the UNESCO Lecture Series The Olmecs and Mayas of Chiapas and Tabasco with the lecture "Ethnography of Chiapas Indians".  In 2002 she gave a lecture at the University of Texas Dallas "Indigenous Values in Mexico: The Case of Tzotzil Maya in Chiapas".  From 1994 to present she has been English-Spanish Tourist guide specialized in the Ethnography of the Mayan indigenous groups of the Highlands of Chiapas.  She is a professional tour guide certified by the Mexican Ministry of Tourism and expert in the fields of Ethnography, History of Colonial Art and Mesoamerican Archaeology.