[4] Later, she cleaned houses and waited tables in order to help pay for her tuition at New Mexico Highlands University.

[4] Her doctoral thesis was entitled In-service teacher education in a tri-ethnic community: a participant-observer study.

[4] On April 1, 1977, President Carter asked Jaramillo to become the United States Ambassador to Honduras.

[4][7] She has also served on the board of trustees of the Children's Television Workshop[7] and the Diversity External Advisory Council of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

In 1992, Jaramillo was appointed deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Latin America during the Clinton Administration.