President    

Claudia María Uribe     

I am Claudia Maria Uribe H., a full-time faculty member from Licenciatura en Lenguas Extranjeras con Enfasis en Inglés, member of the research group Education, Childhood and Foreign Languages at Universidad Católica Luis Amigó (Medellin)  and Asocopi Children Language Learning SIG´s Facilitator. I have been a member of Asocopi from 2017 and now I feel honored to be part of our Association board of directors.  

Vicepresident  

   Kaithie Ramírez      

Kaithie Ramírez-Correa holds a B.A in Bilingual Education from ÚNICA, a Specialization in Translation from Universidad del Rosario and a Master’s degree in Education and Technology from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She is currently the Educational Technology professor at ÚNICA and the managing editor of GiST Education and Learning Research Journal from the same institution. She has more than 8 years of experience as a professor.   

Official spokesperson  

Adriana Marcela Sánchez   

I am Adriana Sanchez Beltrán, B.A in English and Spanish from UPN and Magister in Education from Universidad Externado de Colombia, certified as an ELE educator and Cambridge Examiner. Currently working for Colegio Nueva Granada Primary School, I also teach courses on Bilingual Ed at ÚNICA’s specialization program, and Language Learning Materials at Universidad Surcolombiana masters program. I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to our teaching community as part of the Board of Directors. 

Treasurer  

 

 

  

Secretary  

Clara Lozano 

        Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philology and Languages, Spanish-English, from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, a Master in Linguistics of Spanish from Instituto Caro y Cuervo, and a Specialization in Bilingual Education from Institución Universitaria Colombo Americana-UNICA. 

  English and Spanish teacher at Secretaría de Educación del Distrito (SED) for 28 years, member of the Quality Teams and the Bilingualism Team at SED from 2010 to 2016, and Coordinator of Bilingualism in La Felicidad School IED from 2018 to 2021.  Exchange Spanish Professor at EWU as a Fulbright Scholar 2007-2008. Candidate nominated for Colombia to the main board of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program in 2019 and 2020.  

Alternate member  

Jhonatan Vásquez-Guarnizo

 is a full-time English language professor and researcher in the School of Languages at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnologíca de Colombia (UPTC). He holds an M.A. in Education with emphasis on English Didactics from Universidad Externado de Colombia, an M.A in Language Teaching from the UPTC, and a B.A. in English Language Teaching from Universidad de la Amazonia. He is currently pursuing the Interinstitutional Ph.D. in Education, emphasis in ELT, at Universidad del Valle. His research interests revolve around materials development and gender perspective in ELT. He belongs to the research groups “TONGUE” (UPTC), and “EILA” (Universidad del Valle).