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Valeria Rivera-Garcia

¡Hola! my name is Valeria Rivera, I am from Mexico. I grew up in Mexico almost all my life, so my native language is Spanish. I have been living in the United States for twenty-two years now. I started to teach Spanish in Indiana, I taught Spanish conversation at Purdue Latino Center and International Center in West Lafayette, In.

I moved to Orlando in 2008, and in 2009 I started grad-school at the University of Central Florida in Spanish. I graduated in 2012 with a degree of Master of Arts in Spanish Literature and a year later I started to teach in Valencia College West Campus.

In 2015 I was a visiting professor at UCF where I taught SPN 1120 and 1121 in the classrooms!! Then, in 2017 I work as adjunct Spanish professor in Seminole State College for seven years. Now I return to teach at Valencia College East Campus, Osceola and UCF, in order to gain more teaching experience and to have fun promoting the beautiful Spanish language.

I like to read, travel, cook, work out (I am getting my certificate in Health coaching and Human performance), cultural advocate and I like to spend time with my family.

I hope that you learn Spanish in this course, but more importantly is that you have fun while you experience the culture and the language of the Spanish speaking world.

Remember, “Learning a Language is learning a new culture”

Profesora

Valeria Rivera-Garcia