S31 I was raised on Long Island, New York, where my interest in Spanish was nurtured by my teachers Mr. Martin Stone and Mr. Paul Ferrotti. After finishing my B.A. in Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis (and a wonderful sophomore year in Salamanca, Spain), I completed an M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I took a two-year hiatus to teach English in Mexico City and an additional few months in Colmar, France, then returned to Urbana and completed a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics with a concentration in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education. I have been at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 1999, where I direct the Spanish for Heritage Speakers program. I thank my husband Cliff Meece and his parents, Gayle Meece and Cliff Meece Sr., for all of their support. Kim Potowski
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