GEOviedo

Silvia is the Site Director of the Oviedo program and co-instructor of the Intercultural Awareness/Intercultural Perspectives course. She oversees the Conversation Exchange Program and supervises student internship placements. A native of Asturias, Silvia is a graduate of the University of Oviedo, where she specialised in English Philology. She studied abroad in England as an Erasmus exchange student and spent another year there working as a Spanish Language Assistant. 

Lucía has been the Assistant Director & Student Services Coordinator of the Oviedo program since 2022.  She has a bachelor’s degree in English studies and a Master’s in secondary education teaching. She studied abroad in Warsaw, Poland, as an Erasmus student and in New Mexico, USA, as a master’s student. Her duties include providing students with academic, cultural, and personal guidance. 

Laura has coordinated and guides program-sponsored field trips and excursions for GEO since 1995. She is also an Art History and Spanish History professor at the University of Oviedo’s Curso de Lengua y Cultura Españolas para Extranjeros (ELE). She coordinates all of its extracurricular activities and events.

Carmen was the Site Director for more than 20 years. Now she is enjoying her retirement. Originally from Cuba, Carmen grew up in the U.S., where she completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology from the University of Florida and The Catholic University of America, respectively. During her life, Carmen has crossed cultures many times. Serendipity brought her to Asturias over thirty years ago and to the very land where her grandfather was born. There she says she has finally found her “place” in the world.