Cristina began her professional journey with a double BA in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics. Since then, she has completed a master’s in Applied Linguistics of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (Universidad de Jaén, Spain, 2014) with a focus in communicative-based curriculum design and a master’s program in the Stylistic and Grammatical Analysis of Spanish with a focus in the neurolinguistic of language acquisition (UNED, Spain, 2019).

Currently, Cristina is working on a doctorate in the Lexical Geodiversity of Teaching Spanish as a Second Language in the U.S. which includes her work publishing the first qualitative study about the variety of Spanish taught in Los Angeles.

Cristina’s career includes working as a curriculum director and as a coordinator and teacher of Spanish as a second language for a variety of public and private schools, universities, and language academies in Spain, Nicaragua, Mexico, and the U.S.

Since moving to Los Angeles, Cristina not only works with students, but also gives teacher training workshops at schools to promote the transition from traditional foreign language programs to an interactive, integrated, and culturally aware approach to teaching Spanish that responds to the current generation’s communicative needs.

While Cristina has authored numerous types of programs and resources for a variety of language programs in Spain and the U.S., her most recent curricular projects have focused heavily on developing linguistic competency through cultural celebration. She strongly believes that a language cannot be acquired if it is isolated from the traditions and cultural practices of the many Hispanic communities that speak it and loves being able to bring parts of the Hispanic world to Sequoyah!