Teresa Sanchez-Snell

Teresa Sanchez-Snell is a Lecturer II and the Program Coordinator for the Spanish Language Internship Project.  Through the years, she has developed and designed this engaged learning course to provide unique opportunities for students to engage in experiential learning and community service work with the Latino community.  SLIP aims to connect Spanish-speaking undergraduate students with partnered community-based organizations and schools to provide unique engaged learning opportunities and challenges students to obtain a deeper understanding of existing issues.  She also teaches the academic component to SLIP and exposes students to the study of Latino experiences in the United States, in both a historical and contemporary setting, while also paying particular attention to the effects of race, racism, and comparisons of discrimination and inequality as it occurs in the United States. She actively challenges students to understand the economic, environmental, and social conditions that affect immigrants living in our communities and encourages students practice their responsibilities as socially conscious individuals.