Alicia Pousada has carried out sociolinguistic research in the Puerto Rican communities of North Philadelphia and East Harlem and has taught linguistics and language pedagogy in numerous colleges in New York and New Jersey.  She has also served as Title VII bilingual program evaluator in N.Y.C. public schools, and worked as E.S.L. instructor in Adult Basic Education, community college, and private tutoring programs. Since 1987, she has been a professor of linguistics in the English Department of the College of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus. At present, she is the Director of the Lewis C. Richardson Seminar Room, a graduate research center dedicated to language and literature of the English-speaking world with particular emphasis on the Caribbean. Her publications and presentations focus on the areas of language policy and planning, multilingualism, and teaching of English as an Auxiliary Language world-wide. Dr. Pousada received her B.A. in Languages and Literature in 1976 from Hunter College, CUNY and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics in 1978 and 1984, respectively, from the University of Pennsylvania.