Doña Ana Branch Community College, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Instructor, English as a Second Language, 08/03-present

• Develop syllabi to outline course content.
  
• Instruct Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced levels of English.
  
• Encourage students to use outside academic resources, such as computer labs, library, and so on.
  
• Motivate and engage students to participate in cultural activities, such as the Amnesty International Film Festival.
  
• Develop Civics Project.

New Mexico State University. University Advancement, Las Cruces, NM
Spanish Instructor, 05/04 to present

• Facilitate grant funded Spanish program.

Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
Instructor of Spanish, 08/02-05/03

• Instructed Beginning and Intermediate levels of Spanish.
  
• Incorporated lecture and media technology for the Spanish Culture and Civilization course.
  
• Created and maintained a course content web page.
  
• Introduced students into a survey of Latin American literature and Hispanic literature written by women in the United States.

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Substitute Instructor, 11/01

• Facilitated discussion in Spanish rhetoric and discourse.
  

• Instructed beginning levels of Spanish.

TVX Hellas Mining Company, Stratoni, Chalkidiki, Greece
English Instructor, 08/98-06/00

• Taught English to company managers and family members.

Linguaphone S.A., Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
English Instructor, 09/96-07/99

• Facilitated company sponsored classes.

Bellidio Congress Center, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Spanish/Greek Interpreter, “Greek Diaspora,”12/98

• Interpreted the speech by Kostas Simitis, President of Greece, from Greek to Spanish within an international conference on Greek Diaspora.

Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
Spanish/English/Greek Interpreter, 11/97

• Served as Spanish to English interpreter.
  
• Assisted the Italian team by translating their concluding speech to English.
  
• Served as a volunteer guide to the Spanish and Italian teams.
  

Escuela Mercantil e Idiomas, Binéfar, Huesca, Spain
English Instructor, 08/95-06/96

• Conducted English as a Foreign Language classes.
  
• Provided extra-curricular activities.

Conferences/Presentations

U.S.-Mexico Collaborative Research Workshop, Las Cruces, NM
Participant and Representative of the Computing Research Laboratory, 02/03/05

Primer Encuentro Sobre Estudios de la Mujer en la Región Paso del Norte: Retos frente al siglo XXI. Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope. Presenter, November 13-14, 2003

1st Annual Joint Conference 16th NMCL/36th NMAEA, “Adult Education at the Crossroads: Community Voices and Social Change” Las Cruces, NM
Participant, October 23-25, 2003

Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO). Albuquerque, NM. “El uso del español en obras de escritoras chicanas” Presenter, September 2001

Patents/Publications: Women’s Groups: Tsobol Antzetik and Mujeres por la Dignidad, Chiapas, Mexico
Translation of Articles on Women’s Issues, 2001

“Learning Everything I Can About Freedom: Testimony of a Social Worker and Popular Educator” in Christine Eber and Christine Kovic, eds. Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Translator/Collaborator, 2002

Awards: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México
Presentation Certificate, November 2003

LASSO (Linguistic Association of the Southwest), Albuquerque, NM
Presentation Certificate, September 2001

Research Interests & Background:
Usage of Language especially Spanish

Current Projects:
IAMTC