harvey was born in mexico city. she began a career as a translation consultant in 1991. in 2000 she established syntaxis, llc, a multilingual communications company with a number of fortune 500 clients including companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. syntaxis grew from a purely english-to-spanish translation agency into a large scale operation with 75 employees offering services in 25 languages. harvey studied for a bachelor's degree at the university of houston.