Patricia Burgos, Director, Public Relations

Patricia studied art at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, and fashion at the
Universidade Vega de Almeida in Rio de Janeiro. She recently spent three
years in the United States mastering her English and also her Spanish

Patricia has valuable experience working as an English and Portuguese teacher,
as a public relations, and as coordinator of home stays for students

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Javier Escudero, Director, Educational and Cultural Programs

Javier (Ph.D., Spanish and Latin American Literature, University of Virginia, 1992)
has worked as an Assistant & Associate Professor at Penn State (1992-2006), and has presented papers in over 30 universities or international conferences in the U.S. and abroad

Between 2001-2003, Javier was appointed Director of the Instituto Cervantes of Rio de Janeiro and Spain’s Consul of Education of Rio. During the last twenty years, he has also coordinated and directed several university abroad programs in Spain, Mexico, and Brazil

Javier has also worked as Interport Lecturer for Brazil for Semester at Sea (Feb. 2008), as Smithsonian Journeys' Study Leader on the program Historic Landmarks & Natural Treasures of Brazil (2007), and as TDI's Guest Lecturer on The Mighty Amazon program (2007)

Javier is currently writing his fourth book (Through the Lens of Pierre Verger:
Photographs of a Multicultural United States, 1934 & 1937) and is preparing
a new photographic exibit (Bahia in Black... & White)

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COLLABORATORS

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Marco Jose S. Lima, Project Director, Amazon Region

Marco is Researcher at the Amazon Ichitofauna of the University of Florida,
Coordinator of the Flooded Forest Projects Related to Affluent Rivers
from the Andes for the Instituto de Pesquisas da Amazonia
(Amazon Research Institute), and Member of the Amazon
Biostudies Board of the University of Wisconsin.

In addition, Marco has assisted National Geographic in several projects
in Brazil for almost 20 years

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Luise Reis, Portuguese Language Program Coordinator

B.A., Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

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Travis Kochel, Marketing Advisor, New York

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Kevin Brady, Ad & Media Advisor, New York

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Juan Gomez, Business Management Advisor, New York

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David T. Haberly, Ph.D., Professor of Portuguese, University of Virginia, USA

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Verbena Rocha, Ph.D., Professor of Literature, Universidade Estadual da Bahia, Brazil

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Fernando Opere, Ph.D., Professor of Spanish, University of Virginia, USA

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Sandro Cabral, Ph.D., Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

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Shelley Pyne-Hanley, Mind & Body, New York

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Mónica Baña Alvarez, Translator and Interpreter, Calatrava Traduções, Rio de Janeiro

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Dico Netto, Web Designer, Salvador, Bahia

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Professional references and personal testimonies available upon request

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