Academic Affairs Fellow
Veronica performs curricular research and outreach supporting ACTA’s academic initiatives, especially What Will They Learn?® and Hidden Gems. Prior to joining ACTA, Veronica worked as a program manager at an international legal defense NGO, as a professional translator (Spanish, French, and Latin), and as an educator at the university and high school levels. She is a certified translator with the American Translators Association. She earned a Ph.D. in Spanish literature from Yale University, with a thesis on the modernity of novels about the Spanish Inquisition. Her prior degrees were in Modern European Studies (Columbia University, M.A.), and the Great Books and English (University of Chicago, B.A.). She was a Fulbright Fellow and ISI Richard M. Weaver Fellow. Her non-academic interests include music (especially singing), languages, faith, dancing, and exploring historical, cultural, and natural sites.
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