HEO, Assistant Director, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, The City College of New York, Researcher in Dominican colonial hitory

Historian by training. Five years BA in History of Hispanic America, University of Seville, Spain. M.A. in History, The City College of New York. Coordinator and lead researcher of Dominican colonial history projects at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (The Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool; Juan Rodriguez and the Beginnings of New York City; First Blacks in the Americas / Primeros Negros en las Américas (website); First Blacks in the Americas / Primeros Negros en las Américas Photographic Collection on Flickr.com) Main focus of research: Archival manuscripts on sixteenth-century La Española-Santo Domingo. Also promoter of the creation of a solid, comprehensive academic program in Dominican Studies.