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School of Liberal Arts and Core Studies - World Languages Department Faculty
John P. LeDoux
Chair, Department of World Languages, Associate Professor of Spanish
John LeDoux is a native of Dixon, New Mexico and taught at SFCC from 1998-1999 before returning in 2001. He holds a B.A. in Communications and Spanish and an M.A. in Spanish from the University of New Mexico. He also holds a Ph.D. in Spanish (Chicano Literature) from Arizona State University where his research focused mainly on the Spanish Language short stories of Northern New Mexico.
In addition to teaching at SFCC, he has taught at the University of New Mexico, Earlham College, Indiana University-East and Arizona State University. At SFCC He mainly teaches beginning and intermediate-level courses in the Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) and Spanish as a Second Language (SSL) tracks. He also teaches conversational Spanish, as well as courses in film and literature.
John has also served as the faculty sponsor on many Summer Study Abroad Immersion Programs in Mexico. In his spare time, John enjoys spending time with his family as well as golfing and fishing.
Eva Diana Gallegos
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Eva Diana Gallegos is a native New Mexican, a nuevomexiana, who takes great pride and enjoyment in sharing her culture and native language with students new to Spanish and those who are seeking to stay connected to their Spanish or Latin heritage. She received her B.A. in Spanish with a minor in business from the University of New Mexico. She continued her graduate studies at the University of New Mexico and received an M.A. in Spanish in 1991. Since that time, she has developed an extensive teaching resume, teaching Spanish at different education levels and to students of regionally and socially diverse backgrounds.
Her teaching experience includes serving as an instructor at the National College of Albuquerque for several years and three years as an instructor at Valley High School in Albuquerque. In 1993, Eva and her family moved to Brownsville, Texas, where Eva taught Spanish at the University of Texas at Brownsville for two years before joining the faculty at the Texas State Technical College in Harlingen, where she taught Spanish for eight years. Eva retuned to New Mexico with her family in 2002 and she began teaching at Santa Fe Community College as a part-time instructor. At the same time, she also taught at New Mexico Highlands University, teaching and mentoring students who were pursuing certification in Bilingual Education. She also continued to teach at the high school level at the Academy of Sciences and the Waldorf School in Santa Fe. Eva joined the faculty of Santa Fe Community College as an Assistant Professor in 2006. Eva teaches Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Spanish classes, and all levels of Spanish as a Heritage Language.
Eva organized a Club de Español for community members that has been very successful. The Club meets once a month to converse in Spanish. She enjoys reading, traveling and listening to the music of New Mexico.
Beth E. Krandel, M.Ed.
Chair, American Sign Language/Interpreting Program, Assistant Professor of American Sign Language
Beth Krandel earned her BA in Sociology with an emphasis in Social Services and substantial studies in Communication Disorders at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has an M.Ed. in Educational Technology at Northern Arizona University. Beth began working at SFCC August of 2010. She teaches American Sign Language (ASL) and Interpreting courses, all levels of ASL, Fingerspelling and Numbers, and Deaf Culture and Community and is the sponsor for SFCC ASL Club.
Beth likes spending time with her animals and enjoying the outdoors. She is passionate about sharing the knowledge of the deaf culture and language; feeling that just about anyone can learn ASL as well as learn and participate within the deaf community. Her goal at SFCC is to continuously improve and expand the American Sign Language Interpreting program, as well as enriching the lives of students with the knowledge of ASL, deaf culture and community, and more.
Debra A. Rivera-Sommer
Associate Professor of Spanish
Debra A. Rivera-Sommer is a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico and has been teaching at SFCC since 1985. She holds a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Denver and an M.A. in Spanish from the University of New Mexico. She has taught beginning and intermediate-level courses in both the Spanish as a heritage language and Spanish as a foreign language tracks, as well as conversational Spanish and Spanish through Children's Literature, a course she developed.
Debra has served as Department chair of World Languages and has been a faculty sponsor for many of the summer abroad immersion programs in Mexico and Central America. Her passion has been to instill in all of her students a sense of pride in their Spanish heritage. Debra was rewarded the full-time faculty excellence award in 2009.
For more information, please contact the School of Liberal Arts and Core Studies, (505) 428-1370, priscilla.wheeler@sfcc.edu.