María-Fernanda González Rojas
María-Fernanda González Rojas is the Director of the International Liaison Office in Boston LASPAU-Harvard University. She has a bachelor degree in International Studies from the Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico. She holds a master in Education from the ITESM and a master in European Studies from the Universiteit van Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Maria-Fernanda has done teaching and research work on the following topics:
- Curriculum and Development -On line- Instructor at the ITESM’s Virtual University in Mexico, for the following training program: ''Formando Formadores'' -which is a multidisciplinary effort from Televisa Foundation, Academic Excellence A.C. and the ITESM.
- Courses on: Latin American Literature, Development and Society in Mexico, International Politics and International Communication at the ITESM, Campus Monterrey.
- Supervisor of students in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge, England.
- Mexican Literature Instructor for the Paper Picker Press-Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard (An after-school creative literacy program) in Boston Public Schools.
- Spanish Instructor at Education Development Center in Boston.
- Certified Reader for Admission Exams in LASPAU (Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas –affiliated to Harvard University.
- Lecturer on Latin American Literature at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education in Cambridge, Mass.
- She has worked as an independent observer for the Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) in Mexico for the democratic transition in the country during the 1990-1994 and 2000 federal elections; she has written articles on the role of women in Mexican society in the twentieth century.
- María Fernanda has lived in Rhode Island, USA; Amsterdam, Holland; Paris, France and Cambridge, England. She is married to Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen (Danish Citizen) and they both live in Arlington, MA. USA.
- She is currently working on a personal memoir, for more information please visit her website: www.mex-i-can.net
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