Natalia is a sociolinguist, professor, and Ph.D. student in the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures Program at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Natalia is a PhD student in the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures Program at the City University of New York (CUNY). She earned her bachelor’s degree in Spanish Language and Literature and her master’s degree in Linguistics at the University of Chile, between 2011 and 2018. In 2019, Natalia completed a certificate in Higher Education and Didactics at the Central University of Chile, where she also taught courses related to education, language, and literacy from a sociolinguistic perspective.
Currently, Natalia teaches sociolinguistics and Spanish to heritage speakers at Lehman College (CUNY) and is also a fellow in the Humanities Alliance educational project at the Graduate Center, where she connects her teaching and linguistic work with the educational practice of Global and Experiential Learning (GEL) at LaGuardia Community College.