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Welcome, new member: Wendy Griffin

Wendy Griffin is...
Wendy Griffin is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she also completed her Master's in Education in International Development Education, emphasizing Latin America and Bilingual Intercultural Education, at the University of Pittsburgh in 1989.  She got a B.A.in Foreign Languages and in History at Western Washington University in Bellingham, in 1977.  She learned Spanish while in the Air Force in California,  later worked as a Spanish translator in Key West, Florida, and has also worked with as a bilingual paralegal with Latino Immigrants in New Jersey. In Honduras she worked as an English as a Foreign Language and French Professor at the Escuela Superior del Profesorado (now UPN) and then at the UNAH in Tegucigalpa and finally at the UPN's La Ceiba campus she was an Anthropology professor until 2000. She joined SALALM in 2013, and spoke at SALALM in Miami in 2013 about Garifunas as the Overlap of the Indian and Afro-Descent Human Rights Movements and about Special Issues of Researching Indians particularly in Latin American libraries.

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