60. Beautiful Diversity of Latin American Culture with Trisha JC McMurray

The Spanish speaking world is not a monolith. In this episode, Trisha JC McMurray helps us understand the immense diversity of the Spanish speaking world, discusses ways to approach teaching it, how to help our students see themselves and understand that there are differences but no culture is better or less. Visit the Language Lounge on Twitter - https://twitter.com/langloungepod Connect with Michelle - https://twitter.com/michelleolah Have a comment or question? Leave a voicemail at (207) 888-9819 or email [email protected] Produced by Wayside Publishing - https://waysidepublishing.com Social Media Instagram: trishajcm Facebook: Trisha J. C-McMurray Bio Trisha J.C-McMurray is a first generation American of Vincentian and Panamanian heritage. Her father is from the British West Indian island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Her mother is from Panamá. Currently, she teaches first through fourth grade Spanish but has taught middle and high school Spanish and ESL. Trisha was a Teacher of the Year for Berlitz where she worked as a Spanish and English instructor. Trisha loves Spanish language and culture and has a passion to see that first generation Americans of immigrant parents value learning about and maintaining their heritage, language and culture while at the same time appreciating their multicultural identity. Trisha is very passionate teacher who loves teaching Spanish and exposing her students to the diversity of Latino people and culture as well as the British Caribbean and diverse cultures of the world. She earned her BA in Spanish from Seton Hall University and did a study abroad in Salamanca, Spain at La universidad de Pontificia. She earned her master's degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from NYU (New York University) where she specialized in the collective identities of the British West Indies as well as the Spanish-speaking world and cultural pluralism looking specifically at Afro/Caribbean Latino, Chinese Latino, Indo-Caribbean, Chinese West Indians as well as white West Indians. Before teaching, Trisha furthered her passion for self-representation of Latinos, British West Indians and those of Latino and Caribbean heritage through magazine publishing by attending the publishing program at NYU as well as doing an internship at LATINA magazine. Mentions Pav Kaur @fleavecmmed - Teacher of French and Francophone languages and cultures Rosa Bell https://www.instagram.com/plccultureanddiversity/ Celia Cruz. Cuban Singer Comida Chifa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifa Jose-Louis Orozco - Bilingual Children's Author https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TdIrrIsMyowYPQSyCpNzFPIKc0sVsgvyq9KzgcAkJMKEA&q=juan+luis+orozco&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1047US1047&oq=juan+louis+or&aqs=chrome.6.69i57j0i13i512l4j46i13i512l2j0i13i512l3.7020061j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Speaking Latino https://www.speakinglatino.com/