PROFESSOR

LUANDA REJANE SOARES 

Brazil

University of Antioquia

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL)  (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil. Professor at the School of Languages at the University of Antioquia (UdeA), Colombia. Doctor and Master in Applied Linguistics from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Bachelor of Arts - Modern Languages (Português and Spanish) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Leader of the EDI-Education, Diversity and Inclusion Research Group. (Source: Lattes Curriculum).

PROFESSOR

FERNEY CRUZ ARCILA

Colombia
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional

Ferney holds a PhD in language discourse and communication from King’s College London. His research interests have centered on bilingual education, the implications of language policies, processes of construction of teacher identity, rural education, and the relations of all these elements with issues of social justice. Recently, his work has also included critical outlooks of language teaching and learning from the view of race and racialization as well as the problematization of taken-for-granted ideas about the relationship between English and socioeconomic development. He is an assistant professor at the School of Humanities at Universidad Pedagógica Nacional.

PROFESSOR

PABLA RIVERA IRIBARREN

Chile

Universidad Católica del Norte

Dr. Pabla Rivera Iribarren is a professor of Differential Education with Training in Structural Cognitive Modifiability and Mediated Learning Experience. Master in Educational Sciences. Master in Innovation, Planning and Educational Management and Doctor in Education. She has dedicated years to his professional development in the line of inclusive education.

PROFESSOR
JOSE ALDEMAR
ÁLVAREZ VALENCIA
Colombia
Universidad del Valle

Phd in Teaching and Learning of Second Languages ​​from the University of Arizona. With more than 15 years of teaching experience in different national and international universities. José Aldemar has carried out research and has published in areas such as initial training and professional development of English teachers, discourse analysis, intercultural communication and language didactics. His current work focuses on the application of the multimodal semiotic perspective in virtual environments and in the foreign language classroom.

PROFESSOR
NANCY EMILCE CARVAJAL MEDINA
Colombia
Universidad Pedagógica y
Tecnológica de Colombia

She self-identifies as a “human being under construction”. Her critical-decolonial work WITH/FOR/WITHIN communities is grounded on Chicanx/Latinx Feminism and indigenous knowledges. She was awarded the 2018 Illinois Distinguished Qualitative Dissertation Award for her study “TESTIMONIOS OF THE U.S. RURAL “HOMELESS”: A CRITICAL AND DECOLONIZING-DECOLONIZED ETHNOGRAPHY”. Founder and director of the research group Knowledge in Action- KIA. She has generated peace-building processes within and outside the university to promote dialogue. Seed (Facilitator) of “Re-conectando”. Fulbright alumnus. M.A. in Language Teaching from Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC). PhD in Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education, Washington State University. “Under the Skin” is one of her decolonizing spaces. 

PROFESSOR
NANCY REEVES
USA

Nancy Reeves holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Philosophy, a Master of Arts in Spanish from Penn State University, and a Master of Arts in English from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, as well as postdoctoral studies in Research from the University of Leicester and in Curriculum from Panamerican University. She has taught in different academic settings, from elementary to university level in different countries. She has also given lectures in several countries. She has worked in curriculum design in several institutions. She joined the Pearson family as Product Specialist for Central America in 2017 and works as Academic Coach for Mexico and Central America.