Professional Experience
Teaching
- Barnard College of Columbia University: 1996-present
Elementary, Intermediate and Conversational Spanish.
- Private tutoring: 1995-present
Spanish to adult students.
- New York City Board of Education: 1959-1995
Bilingual Elementary School Director, Assistant Director, Classroom teacher
- Served as Director and Assistant Director of The Hostos Academy,
a bilingual-bicultural alternative elementary school in East Harlem.
Taught monolingual and bilingual classes; grades K 6.
Transposed Latin American folktales and songs into plays in Spanish.
Developed and executed experimental bilingual program. (1965).
Conducted conversational Spanish workshops for parents.
- School Volunteer Program: Coordinator-Trainer.
Translation
- Materials for Ph.D. in Anthropology on Fishing Cooperatives in Mexico.
(Spanish to English), 1998-2001
- Poetry for best seller Love Me To Death by Linda Wolfe, (Spanish to
English) Simon & Schuster, 1998.
- Medical research studies conducted in Spain by The DuPont Merk
Pharmaceutical Company, 1995.
Education
- City University of New York Graduate Center: 16 credits. (12 in Latin
American Literature).
- New York University: Masters Degree in Education.
- Queens College of the City of New York: Bachelor of Arts Degree,
Anthropology-Sociology Major; Spanish and Latin American Studies Minor.
- Universidad de Santander: (Spain), Summer 1964.
- El Instituto Americano: (Cochabamba, Bolivia), 1941-1948.
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