About
Maria Consuelo Digon (Chelo) worked seventeen years as a company lawyer for the Institute for Business Competitiveness (ICE) Castilla y León, Spain. She served as the Director of the Burgos department and as a board member of the University of Burgos' Consejo Social. She has also taught numerous seminars and workshops on interregional and cross-border cooperation in Europe, entrepreneurship, innovation, and support for small and medium-sized businesses through the European Regional Development Fund
In 2013 she relocated to the United States. This provided her with the unique opportunity to continue one of her strong interests: teaching. She worked as a Spanish teacher at Burns Park Elementary School and Emerson School assisting course coordination and curriculum design. Digon’s professional experience also includes teaching at Nuestra Lengua, an University of Michigan research project on bilingualism and language acquisition for Spanish native speakers. In 2022, she joined the department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.
She is an avid reader and loves writing. She received the jury prize at the FLIC (Festival de literatura i arts infantil i juvenil) in Barcelona with Ediciones Tralari and the Short Novel award Mujerarte in Córdoba. One of her most memorable experiences was sharing her stories in New Delhi with the Instituto Cervantes. She loves her family and friends, traveling the world, yoga and cooking.
Areas of interests:
Her interests span multiple fields and areas:
Curriculum development in foreign language education.
Cross-border language, linguistic frontiers.
Cross border communities and collaboration.
Linguistic diversity and plurilingual education
ADHD, accommodations in foreign language classrooms.
Immigration Law. Hispanic/ Latinx entrepreneurship in the USA
Children’s literature
Affiliations:
The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Bar Association of Burgos (Spain)
Yoga Alliance
