Diana Hernandez Head Start - Home Base Home Base Educator

First Job: cashier at a county grocery store

Birthplace: Harlingen, Texas

Years at EOC: 15 ½ years

Best advice ever received: “Work hard and do your best” and “Stay away from gossip.”

Favorite advice I give: “Listen to people and don’t criticize them because you really don’t know what’s going on inside them.”

Favorite restaurant, dish, or pig-out food: Sizzlers

Proudest moment: when one of my special needs children said “maestra” for the first time after calling me mama

Greatest personal accomplishment: loving my job and doing the best I can when serving my families

Best vacation I’ve taken: Mexico with the family

Last good movie I saw : Hallmark’s Lost Valentine

 
Scariest experience: finding out I had breast cancer

If I had a million dollars I would … help St. Jude’s Hospital, help my church, and my family.

 
Favorite place to shop: Walmart because it’s a one-stop shop; you’ll find everything you need there.

Favorite childhood memory: going to grandparents house every weekend, BBQing and playing

Words that describe me best: very positive, hard worker, gets adjusted to changes well, and I always have a smile on my face

I like to watch: Discovery Health, Lifetime and novelas

In my spare time … I spend time with my family.

If I’ve learned one thing in life, it is … that you have to live life like it’s your last day.