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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-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 is the recipient of the AATSP Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award for Community Colleges (2023). Since 2019, Cristina has served as Chabot’s OER Liaison and previously as the Spanish Discipline Lead for the ASCCC OERI. Currently, she is Region B Lead and the ADAPT Lead and serves on the statewide Burden-Free Instructional Materials Implementation Taskforce.
She has developed online courses for first and second-year Spanish, all of which have undergone the CVC-OEI review process. She co-authored Tarea Libre (2023) and Entrada Libre (2020). 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.
Dr. Alejandro Lee
Alejandro Lee is Professor of Spanish at Santa Monica College, where he has been teaching first and second-year Spanish and Heritage Spanish courses since 2016. He holds B. A. degrees in French and Spanish from Pitzer College, a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and a Masters in Library and Information Science from UCLA. A heritage speaker of Chinese, Dr. 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. Dr. Lee was the recipient of the AATSP Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (2024). He is co-author of Entrada Libre (2020) with Cristina Moon, Nancy Meléndez-Ballesteros, and Nicolás Crisosto, as well as Tarea Libre (2023) with Cristina Moon, Nancy Meléndez-Ballesteros and Sarah Harmon; and Tarea Libre 2 (2024) with Cristina Moon, Sarah Harmon and Hugo Díaz-Rodil. He is the ASCCC OERI Spanish Lead as of fall 2025.
Dr. Sarah Harmon
Dr. Sarah Harmon is an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics and the OER/ZTC Program Manager at Cañada College, where she has taught most of her courses since 2006. She earned a B.A. in Spanish and a M.A. in Linguistics from the University of California at Davis, and a Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics from 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 co-authored Tarea Libre (2023) for first-year collegiate Spanish courses with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Nancy Meléndez-Ballesteros, also Tarea Libre 2 (2024) for second-year collegiate Spanish courses with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Hugo Díaz-Rodil. She has created a remix of Entrada Libre plus Yepes (2021) for second-year collegiate Spanish courses, and an adaptation of Essentials of Linguistics (2024) for introductory linguistics courses. Previously, she served as the faculty coordinator for OER and chaired the SMCCCD District Teaching and Learning Committee where she focused on best practices in pedagogy and online learning. Additionally, she is the outgoing Academic Coordinator of Lake Tahoe Community College’s Intensive Spanish Summer Institute (ISSI). 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 Spanish and Portuguese.
Professor Hugo Díaz-Rodil
Professor Hugo Díaz-Rodil is a part-time instructor at Sierra College and at American River College. He holds a M.A. in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language from the University of Cantabria, Spain, as well as a Single Subject Teaching Credential in Spanish and in French, with a Bilingual Authorization. He has an AAPPL rater certification, and a certified DELE examiner by the Instituto Cervantes. Moreover, he has completed the ACTFL OPI Familiarization Workshop. In the US, Professor Díaz-Rodil has taught Spanish at elementary level (dual-language program), high school level and at community colleges. He is co-author of Tarea Libre 2 (2024) with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee, and Sarah Harmon.
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