Staff/Personal
Board of Directors:
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Administrative Director |
Zenaida H. Maravi |
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Executive Director |
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Adult Program Director |
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Children's Program Director |
Manuela Whalen |
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General Information |
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Services Offered:
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Spanish (Adults) |
Spanish (Kids) |
English as a Second Language |
Translation (English-Spanish) |
Translation (Portuguese) |
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Pilar L Maravi |
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Zenaida H. Maravi |
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Kellye D. Hawkins |
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Manuela Whalen |
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Adult Program Director
Kellye Hawkins
Education:
A.B.D. in Spanish Medieval Literature, Temple University, Current
M.A. in Spanish, Temple University, 2005
B.S. in Marketing, The Pennsylvania State University, 1999
B.S. in Management, The Pennsylvania State University, 1999
Interests: Medieval literature of Spain, dancing salsa, merengue, bachata, cha-cha-cha and learning to dance forró, kizomba and samba, poetry, the creative arts in general, languages and cultures, travel and much more...
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese (Reading, writing & conversation), French, Italian and Catalan (Reading)
Kellye is a doctoral student working on her dissertation in Spanish Medieval Literature at Temple University. She is the co-founder and Chair of TUGSEP (Temple University Graduate Students of Español & Português). An African American woman, she commands the language as if she were a native Spanish speaker. She has taught Spanish and Portuguese to senior citizens, adults, young adults and children in varying settings for the past 7 years. Kellye also has experience as a volunteer ESL (English as a Second Language) instructor at Casa del Carmen, Philadelphia, through the Project SHINE program at Temple University. Her passion for language, cultures and people is contagious. A lover of travel she has visited Mexico, Italy, and Portugal, but her list of travels has only begun.
At LASI she is an instructor, translator, Adult Program Director and webmaster.
Executive Director
Pilar Maraví
B.S., Architecture Sciences, Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón, 1984
Education:
A.B.D. in Spanish Medieval Literature, Temple University, Current
M.A. in Spanish, Temple University, 2006
Professional Degree of Architecture, Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón, 1993B.S., Architecture Sciences, Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón, 1984
Interests:
Medieval literature of Spain, art, architecture and travel
Languages: Spanish and English
Pilar is a
doctoral student working on her dissertation in Spanish Medieval
Literature at Temple University. She is the co-founder and Vice Chair of
TUGSEP (Temple University Graduate Students of Español &
Português). A Peruvian woman, she is a native Spanish speaker. She has taught Spanish at Temple for 5 years and in her native Peru she taught Architecture, Environmental Systems and Design and Architectural Drawing at the Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón in Lima, Perú. She loves language, cultures and people from the various countries that she has visited including Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Spain, France, Morocco, Chile, Canada and Portugal. She is also the Treasurer of ANPA (Asociación Nacional Peruano-Americana).
At LASI she is an instructor and Executive Director.
Administrative Director
Zenaida Maraví
At LASI she is an instructor, translator and Administrative Director.
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