Our Presenters:

Professor Grazia Spina is an enthusiastic polyglot who has been teaching French, Italian and German for over 16 years at the University of Central Florida and Valencia College. She has successfully directed study abroad programs all over Europe for many years and inspired her students to keep traveling and learning. Prof Spina has been teaching all levels of French, Italian and German in face-to-face, mixed mode and fully online environments. She holds two distance learning certifications from both institutions where she teaches.

Kate Grovergrys is a Spanish professor at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisconsin. In her current position, she has developed and taught introductory, intermediate and advanced Spanish courses in a variety of formats including face-to-face, hybrid, online and accelerated. Prior to teaching at Madison Area Technical College, Kate taught Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Lourdes High School in Rochester, Minnesota. She holds a B.A. in Spanish from Valparaiso University in Indiana, and a M.A. in Spanish Literature & Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. In 2012, she became certified as an online instructor when she completed the E-learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate at UW-Stout. She is passionate about language teaching and enjoys fostering an engaging learning community in her classes.