About the Team
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Our team comprises of experienced Spanish instructors with extensive language teaching experience in language, linguistics, literature, and culture at public and private institutions. Our diverse learning and teaching styles and our different areas of expertise will all contribute to the success of this collaboration. All team members are united in our goal to create a comprehensive and accessible Spanish homework system that will showcase diverse linguistic and ethnic populations in ways that are equitable and accessible and provide a high high-quality zero-cost homework platform for students. At the core of our collaboration is a commitment to learning from each other and integrating our diverse experiences and methodologies into the project.
Dr. Cristina Moon
Dr. Cristina Moon is Professor of Spanish at Chabot College. She joined the college in 2006. She earned a B. A. in Spanish from UC Berkeley, and a M. A. and Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UCLA. She has developed online courses for first and second-year Spanish, which have undergone the CVC-OEI review process. Cristina is the Spanish Lead, H5P Lead, and the OER Liaison for the ASCCC OERI. She co-authored Entrada Libre, an OER for second-year Spanish, as part of RFP I. She is the OER/ZTC Coordinator at Chabot College and World Languages Coordinator. Dr. Moon speaks several languages and is a heritage speaker of Korean. She straddles several worlds, having grown up in Guam, Buenos Aires, and California. As project lead Dr. Moon coordinated the overall grant and project development and schedule. As the technical lead she led the content creation in LibreStudio with H5P and content integration in ADAPT.
Dr. Alejandro Lee
Alejandro Lee is a professor of Spanish at Santa Monica College, where he has been teaching second-year Spanish and Heritage Spanish course since 2016. Professor Lee holds B. A. degrees in French and Spanish from Pitzer College, a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and a master in library and information science from UCLA. In addition, he has taken courses in Portuguese, Italian, and Latin. A heritage speaker of Chinese, Professor Lee studied Mandarin in Taiwan and the United States. From 2010 to 2021 he worked as summer faculty for the StarTalk Heritage Teacher Workshop at UCLA, and is a co-founder of Heritage Language Exchange with María Carreira and Sybil Alexandrov. He served as the chair of the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) Spanish Developing Test Committee (College Board) and was the Community College representative of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) from 2020 to 2022. He is co-author of Entrada Libre with Cristina Moon, Nancy Meléndez-Ballesteros, and Nicolás Crisosto.
Dr. Sarah Harmon
Dr. Sarah Harmon is Adjunct Professor of Spanish and Linguistics and OER/ZTC Coordinator at Cañada College, where she has taught most of her courses since 2006. She earned a BA in Spanish and , ann Linguistics at UC Davis, and a Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. She has developed online and in-person courses in Spanish and Linguistics at the collegiate level since 2006, all of which have undergone the CVC-OEI review process. She also sits as the Faculty Chair of the SMCCCD District Academic Senate Standing Committee on Teaching and Learning, allowing her to lead discussions on pedagogy/andragogy, distance education, and other areas of classroom practices. Additionally, she is the current Academic Coordinator of Lake Tahoe Community College’s Intensive Spanish Summer Institute (ISSI). Dr. Harmon is co-leading a Spanish for Health Professions OER project through LibreTexts with Prof. Meléndez-Ballesteros, a project that also includes Dr. Lee. Dr. Harmon also runs a YouTube channel, Lengua Franca, which focuses on grammar explanations for Spanish and other linguistic phenomena. She is a heritage speaker of Italian and has studied several other languages. As the linguistic co-lead for this project she wrote grammar exercises, and revised content, and proofread all sections.
Prof. Nancy Meléndez-Ballesteros
Professor Nancy Meléndez-Ballesteros is Assistant Professor and Interim Chair of the Language and Culture Department at Mount Saint Mary’s University - LA. She holds a BA in Spanish from Montclair University in New Jersey, and a MA in Spanish Linguistics from UCLA. In 2015, she was conferred the degree of Candidate in Philosophy in Hispanic Languages and Literature at UCLA, where she co-founded the Centro de Estudios del Español de los Estados Unidos (CEEEUS). She is a Spanish instructor at College of the Canyons and Santa Monica College. Professor Meléndez-Ballesteros has been teaching online since 2004, and has developed a variety of courses, among them: first and second-year Spanish, Spanish courses for professions, Introduction to Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, and Applied Linguistics. Moreover, she has given numerous workshops on online teaching, and has done interdisciplinary work on Project Based Learning (PBL) . Currently, Professor Meléndez-Ballesteros is co-leading a Spanish for Health Professions OER project through LibreTexts with Dr. Harmon, a project that also includes Dr. Lee. As the linguistic co-lead for this project she led the writing of the grammar exercises and revised content and proofread all sections.