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The Hosts

	Joseph Mulligan (Pitt., USA/Lima, Peru) Joseph is one of the founders of SpanishPod101.com. As Director of Operations, he oversees and participates in the development and production of all lessons published by SpanishPod101.com. Joseph also hosts the Peruvian Spanish Series, the Spanish Phonetics Series and the Verb Conjugation Series. A native New Yorker, he studied Literary Translation in the Departments of English/Romance Languages at SUNY Albany, NY. He carried out studies at Universidad de Concepcion, Chile and translation research in Lima, Peru and Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. He is a specialist in the poetic works of Cesar Vallejo. English is Joseph’s native language; he is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and is literate in Latin. He currently resides in Pittsburgh, USA and Lima, Peru. Aside from his deep dedication to the improvement of communication and understanding, Joseph has great interest in learning the fine art of structured procrastination.

	Beatriz Sosa (Pitt., USA/Lima, Peru) Beatriz has been with the SpanishPod101.com team from the beginning. She works as an editor, content developer and hostess of the Peruvian Spanish Series, the Spanish Phonetics Series and the Verb Conjugation Series. She is a native of Lima, Peru, where she studied Fine Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica. She has carried out language studies at Hartnack Schule in Berlin, Germany. Her work prior to the SpanishPod101.com team includes Logistical Coordination for a German Eco-tourist company, throughout Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Spanish is Beatriz’s native language, and she is also fluent in German and English. Beatriz resides in Pittsburgh, USA and Lima, Peru. Her interest in language is complemented by her dedication to the art of other cultures, especially modern art.

	David Pérez Sánchez (Madrid, Spain) David was born and raised in Madrid, Spain where he still lives. Hosting the Iberian Spanish Series, as well as a number of Advanced Audio Blogs, David opens up the doors for us and shows us what Iberian culture is all about. He got a degree in Telecommunications Engineering at the Universidad Politecnica and is currently working full-time for a multinational Spanish telecommunications company. He enjoys collaborating on motivating projects and community associations. He has a deep interest in Ancient and Medieval History and in languages. He is a native Spanish speaker, fluent in English, and is currently studying Japanese due to his interest in Japan.

	Megan Cytron (Madrid, Spain) Megan, a native English speaker, was born in the US and has studied and lived all over the US, France, and Spain. She has degrees in Political Science, Linguistics, Hispanic Studies, and she wrote her thesis on the history and politics of the Catalan language. She is the hostess of the Iberian Spanish Series, offering us insight into what it means to be a bilingual/non-native speaker in Spain. A perpetual student, she is currently finishing up her “licenciatura” in Spanish Philology (translation: literature, linguistics and Latin) at the Universidad Complutense. For the past four years, Megan has worked as a freelance writer and web-designer in Madrid and as the “mama” of a bilingual six-year-old. Despite her nearly all-encompassing obsession with literature and words, she counts film, art, gastronomy, and music among her other passions.

	Lizy Stoliar (Lima, Peru) Lizy is a profesional voice over artist born in Lima, Peru. She hosts the Newbie and Beginner Series at SpanishPod101.com. Her mother, Uruguayan and her father, Argentine, and growing up in Lima, Peru, Lisy is well aware of the importance of learning a standard form of Spanish.She studied both English at La Asociacion Cultural Peruano Britanica, and for Bilingual Executive Secretary at La Academia ELA, but being a voiceover artist is what she enjoys most! Music is her passion too. Lizy has worked as a DJ at several radio stations in Lima, and she has provided translations from English to Spanish for TV specials, such as Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, Miss Universe, the MTV Music Awards, etc.

	Alan La Rue (Lima, Peru) Alan La Rue was born in Canada and moved to Lima, Peru in 1995. He hosts the Newbie and Beginner Series at SpanishPod101.com. Besides having an interest in voiceover and multimedia production,he is also the founder of the El Sol Spanish Language School http://elsol.idiomasperu.com in Lima, Peru. Despite his love for Canada, Alan has yet to find a good reason to leave Peru. He’s married to a Peruvian, and they have two children. One of his greatest pleasures is watch his kids grow up with complete fluency in btoh Spanish and English. At El Sol, Alan works to help people make tremendous progress in a short time. There, the goal is hide the learning process in the lived experience. He is constantly looking for new ways to show students that the best way to learn Spanish is to seek out opportunities to apply it. Between his Newbie and Beginner Lessons and the Immersion courses at El Sol, you cannot but learn with Alan.

	Carlos Acevedo (San Jose, Costa Rica) Born and raised in New York, Carlos became interested in education through an insatiable appetite for reading. He currently hosts the Costa Rican Regional Series. A seasoned teacher, Carlos earned a Masters degree in Education while teaching high school English literature in the New York City borough of the Bronx. After living in Valencia, Spain in 2001, Carlos decided to pursue teaching opportunities in San Jose, Costa Rica, where he currently resides.

	Natalia Araya (San Jose, Costa Rica) Born and raised in Costa Rica, Natalia has spent time living in the United States and Australia. She hosts the Costa Rican Regional Series for SpanishPod101.com. An academic vanguard with a wide range of interests, she is currently pursuing a career as a silversmith with the goal of creating her own studio. Fluent in both Spanish and English, Natalia encourages a practical approach to learning, one that focuses more on application than theory.

	Ana Madrigal (Guanajuato, Mexico/Morgantown, USA) Ana, a native Spanish speaker, was born in Mexico. She hosts the Intermediate Series at SpanishPod101.com. She is a Spanish and English teacher at Universidad de Guanajuato, where she is also the off-campus English coordinator. Ana holds a BA degree in English. She currently resides in Morgantown, West Virginia where she is doing her MA in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) at WVU. She has a Teaching Assistantship in the Foreign Language Department at WVU. She is fluent in Spanish, English, Spanglish and French. Her interest in languages in complemented by Literature, Modern Art, Photography, Music and Red Wine.

	Kathy Vargas Byrd (Chiclayo, Peru) Kathy, was born and raised in Peru. She hosts the Lower Intermediate Series at SpanishPod101.com. She is a Spanish native speaker, but she is also fluent in English and German. Kathy studied translation and interpretation at the Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru. She holds a BA degree in German from WVU. She currently resides in Morgantown, WV where she is doing her MA in Linguistics and TESOL at WVU. Kathy is a Spanish instructor at West Virginia University, and she also teaches Spanish to children. She believes that the best way to improve language skills is by forgetting about inhibitions and learning from mistakes.

Audio Engineering

	Tito Huapaya (Lima, Peru) Tito is a music composer and audio engineer from Lima, Peru. He owns a music production & audio post-production company. Tito is in charge of producing/recording SpanishPod101.com lessons from his studio in Lima. He has also composed some of the SpanishPod101.com music. As a composer, he has credits in remix compilations and in hypnosis CDs and DVDs programs. He also works closely with production music libraries and developers around the world in the role of music composer or sound effects designer, creating multimedia applications, animations, ringtones and games for computers and mobile devices.

	Tomas Mackey (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Tomas was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he resides. He has lived in the United States where he learned the English language. Tomas studied Film in Argentina and worked for several years in marketing. Currently he works as professional voiceover in Standard Spanish and English for the Latin American and the Hispanic market of the United States.

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