PATRICIA GONZÁLEZ GRANGUÉ

Online Academic Private Tutor

Varsity Tutors, USA

Bilingual Instructional Reading/Dyslexia Specialist & LPAC Dual Language Coordinator

Retired Certified Teacher Grades 1-12

Tomball ISD & Rio Grande City CISD, Texas

Project E3: Expanding Energy Education Curriculum Facilitator

Ocean Star Offshore Energy Center

Galveston, Texas

Preventive Health & Community Sanitation Field Extension Agent

U. S. Peace Corps Volunteer

Chad, Central Africa & Cameroon, West Africa

Patricia González Grangué founded CoLOURRise® Inc. as a way to address the inequalities faced by many deprived children she encountered while working as a public school educator and a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. She personally experienced the frustrating efforts of not being able to access resources for low-income, oppressed, and underprivileged student populations. Due to a lack of educator training and preparation, and limitations imposed by their geographical locations, she understood the dire need to empower such communities with differentiated tools and resources that would enable them to thrive. Many of the students she assisted included children of migrant working families and refugee families who were unable to adequately provide their children with academic and economic opportunities, resulting in an ever-growing gap in educational performance and systemic inequalities. 

CoLOURRise® Inc. was developed as a collective response to the needs of these children, who are part of the current educational profile imprinted worldwide. As it grows wider, so do the needs of the students, their families, and educators who influence them.

Patricia holds a Master of Arts in Bilingual Education/Principalship for Grades K-12 from the University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas, and a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. She is a retired Texas-certified teacher who has served as a Bilingual Instructional Reading/Dyslexia Specialist and private online academic tutor, implementing various differentiated content and grade-level curricula.

Lead Quality Engineer

Wood, PLC

Houston, Texas

Lead Engineer/Global Product Responsible Engineer

Control & Automation Division

TechnipFMC, USA 

Houston, Texas

Project & Product Engineer/

Western Region Product Responsible Engineer

Control & Data Management Division

FMC Technologies

Houston, Texas

Plant Engineer

SCAN-PAC Manufacturing

Magnolia, Texas

Project Manager 

Biosolid Division

Ashbrook Simon-Hartley

Houston, Texas

Field Engineer/Field Engineer Intern

Schlumberger

Alice, Texas/Bakersfield, California

Kalang Taboung Grangué was born in Deressia, Southern Region of Chad, Central Africa, in 1974. He was raised in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, where he earned his primary and secondary education. In 1999, he attended L'Institut Nationale Supérieure des Sciences et Techniques in N'Djamena, Chad. In 2000, Kalang found the opportunity to travel to the United States, where he gained the means to further his college education in Mechanical Engineering. As a result, Kalang currently holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas. He also holds two separate Associate Degrees in Math and Engineering from South Texas College, McAllen, Texas. Thus, Kalang has worked in the oil and gas industry since August 2006. 

Although he became an American citizen in 2009, Kalang's hopes and dreams have always been to provide aid to children and youth living in impoverished, low-income communities, such as the one in which he was born and raised. He firmly believes that any child, regardless of their background, can succeed academically as long as they are given the opportunity.