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Agnes Dimitriou is the Director of the summer Spanish Program and a member of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Berkeley. An ACTFL proficiency trainer and rater, Agnes' interests include writing development, cultural studies, and Latin American women writers.

Juan A. Sempere Martinez is the Section Coordinator of the B.A. Program in Spanish and a member of the Department of Foreign Languages at San Jose State University. With a degree in Romance Philology, Juan's work encompasses historical linguistics, morphology, syntax and dialectology, most recently the study of the Murcian dialect and Catalan-Spanish contact.

Frances M. Sweeney is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and a member of the Modern Languages Department at Saint Mary's College of California. With a degree in Hispanic Applied Linguistics, Frances' interests include computer-assisted language learning, integrated language acquisition, assessment, and the changing role of the professor in higher education.