Education

Mariana Cruz-Martinez graduated from the University of Oregon in 2023 with a B.A. in Global Studies (Tourism, Latin American and the Caribbean) and Anthropology (Cultural), in addition to two minors in Spanish and Latinx Studies. She was a Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship recipient and studied abroad ...

Nancy Carré is the owner of a successful grant writing consulting business, specializing in securing funding for nonprofits on both national and international levels. Graduating summa cum laude in 1992, Nancy continued her academic journey by obtaining a master’s degree in reading, a master’s degree...

Jared Maier is the CEO and Principal of Lexis Language Center, an international school alternative in Tokyo, Japan. After moving to Japan in 2010, he has focused deeply on education and business. Witnessing the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima #2 Nuclear Power Plant meltdown in 2011,...

Yacquelin Carrasco Vivar is an English Teacher in South Korea. Right after graduating the University of Oregon with a Second Language Acquisition and Teaching certificate, she started working as an English Language Learning Teacher Assistant and a Spanish Teacher, in which she helped students learn ...

Florence Ramond Jurney is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Gettysburg College with over twenty years teaching experience at the undergraduate level. Her research centers on Caribbean literature, particularly francophone women authors that were the focus of her first two manuscripts. ...

My name is Megan Turner Baxter. I majored in Educational Studies and Spanish, which led to a wonderful and rewarding career as a teacher in Hillsboro, Oregon. I just finished my 23rd year! I began my career in a 5/6 elementary school class at a Title 1 school, where I used my linguistic skills every...

Jacqui Low is the Assistant Vice President of Human Resources at Chaminade University of Honolulu. Fascinated by people and culture, Jacqui has worked in education, healthcare, and retail sectors in human resources both in the US and internationally (Guangzhou, China). Jacqui has a China Internation...

Kenya Jimenez graduated with her BA at the University of Arizona in 2017 and her MA in Italian at the University of Oregon in 2019. Kenya is an Academic Advisor for a Cristo Rey Network School in Tucson, Arizona. She is also a PhD student in the Higher Education program at the University of Arizona....

Porter S. Wheeler is currently a Peace Corps Education Volunteer serving in the Dominican Republic. He helps elementary school students improve their Spanish literacy levels. Additionally, his writing has been published in The Nation Magazine, DSA’s The Activist, and UO’s own The Daily Emerald. As a...

Annika Godefroy currently works as Director of Exchanges for MICEFA, a Franco-American university exchange program located in Paris, France. While studying at the University of Oregon, she had the opportunity to study abroad in Angers, France in 2008. After graduating in 2010, she began the TAPIF pr...