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Vivian Brates is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she attended the University of Buenos Aires. She received an M. A. degree from Georgetown University in Latin American Studies, with a focus on Economic Development, and previously an M. A. degree from UC Santa Barbara in Spanish and Latin American Literature. She worked for several years as a Human Rights Observer and Election Monitor with the United Nations and the OAS in Haiti, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Guatemala, as well as an advocate and lobbyist in Washington DC. She has worked at Stanford since 2005 and has focused on developing meaningful partnerships with Spanish-speaking communities to offer students real-life experiences, raise awareness about other cultures (and their own), grow their global competencies, and develop identities as engaged citizens. Her students have been working with the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area preparing immigrants for the US citizenship exam, the Dilley Pro Bono Project in Texas and Al Otro Lado in Tijuana, Mexico, helping asylum seekers articulate their fear of return claims, and more recently with Freedom for Immigrants, staffing hotlines for immigrants in ICE detention. She has also volunteered for the Prison University Project teaching Spanish at San Quentin Prison. Currently teaching
SPANLANG 10: Beginning Oral Communication
(Autumn, Spring)
SPANLANG 13SL: Second-Year Spanish: Emphasis on Service Learning, Third Quarter (Autumn, Winter, Spring) HUMRTS 108: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border (Autumn) SPANLANG 100: Advanced Oral Communication (Autumn, Winter, Spring) SPANLANG 108SL: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Migration, Asylum & Human Rights at the Border (Autumn) SPANLANG 250: Reading Spanish (Winter) HUMRTS 110: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Campus Workers' Health and Empowerment Outreach (Spring) SPANLANG 110SL: Advanced Spanish Service-Learning: Campus Workers' Health and Empowerment Outreach (Spring) |