María Angélica (Keka) joined the DRCLAS Regional Office staff in May of 2006 as the Office Assistant. She organizes all of the logistics for the office, prepares translations and assists the Program Officer with the finances as well. Prior to joining the DRCLAS Regional Office Maria Angélica was the Administrative Assistant for Mr. Patricio Meller at CIEPLAN, a well respected think tank on social and economic research corporation in Santiago, Chile.

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Administrative Assistant, DRCLAS Regional Office

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María José Ferreyra works out of Buenos Aires, coordinating the DRCLAS Study Abroad and Summer Internship Programs in Argentina. She is a Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and a graduate of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (1986). She served as Student Advisor to the Centro Binacional Argentino-Norteamericano (IICANA). In 1992, she lived in Boston and worked as a Professor of Spanish at UMass; she also worked in adult and child education in Brookline, MA.

Marcela manages the financial administration of the DRCLAS Regional Office in Santiago, strategic development and faculty projects. Marcela has worked at the Regional Office since its opening in 2002; previously, she worked on the Center's staff in Cambridge as Conference and public events Coordinator, in outreach and publications, with a particular focus on marketing efforts. A native of Colombia and with a background in advertising, Marcela worked in Bogotá for five years as a creative copywriter in international advertising agencies such as Leo Burnett and Saatchi & Saatchi.

Alejandra assists in the administration of the Regional Office in Chile, including managing the Summer Internship Program in Santiago for Harvard College students. A native of Chile, Alejandra also spent six years in Cambridge, where she took courses in journalism and marketing at the Harvard Extension School and taught Spanish in a public school for three years. She also worked as Recruiting Coordinator for Latin American students in the United States at Corp Group for two years, where she coordinated the process of recruiting and hiring students to work in Latin America.

Pilo is the Spanish Instructor and Student Programs Coordinator of the DRCLAS regional office in Santiago. For four years, she worked in Boston as a Spanish language instructor at Harvard University, Tufts University, the University of Massachusetts and Boston University. Pilo spent nine years in Israel, where she took courses in Hebrew and taught Spanish in a Public School in Tel Aviv. In Chile she worked as an English grammar teacher at the Universidad del Bao-Bao and at the Universidad San Sebastian, in Concepcion. A native of Chile, she holds a B.A.

As the Regional Office Program Director of the Chile Office, Steve manages all activities and operations of the DRCLAS Office in Santiago, Chile. Prior to moving to Chile, he was DRCLAS's Executive Director from 1996 - 2002.