Dr. Susan Berk-Seligson is Director for Graduate Studies in the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies at Vanderbilt University, as well as, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Before coming to Nashville she was a professor of Hispanic linguistics in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh for nineteen years. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor at Purdue University. She is author of The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process, published by The University of Chicago Press.

Christina Amezquita is a teacher at Glendale Elementary Spanish Immersion School, the only partial Spanish immersion school in TN, where Spanish is taught through the math and the science content areas, as well as, through culture. Glendale Elementary works within the school and the community to celebrate diversity.  Mrs. Amezquita has: taught for thirteen years in the United States and Spain; interpreted at the Olympics; directed the 4^th Annual TFLTA Tennessee Elementary Foreign Language Teachers Workshop; chaperoned students to Girona, Spain for Sister Cities of Nashville; and presented at state foreign language conferences across the country.

Maria Clara Mejia is one of the three cofounders of Conexión Américas, a Hispanic Organization with headquarters in Nashville that promotes the integration of Hispanic families into the local community, where she is the developer and chief instructor of the Latino Cultural Competency Training©. Previously, Ms. Mejia worked for the World Bank for fourteen years in thirteen Latin American countries. Maria Clara Mejia was born and raised in Colombia, South America. She holds a bachelor degree in Economics and a Masters degree in Anthropology.

Emi Canahuati is Manager of Education and Training for Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee. Ms. Canahuati was born and raised in Honduras, Central America, in a household with an American mother and Honduran father. Ms. Canahuati came to the United States to attend college, earning a Masters in Counseling from NYU. She has been working in the field of sexuality education for ten years and is an expert on "Planned Parenthood and Their Partnership with the HIV Vaccine Trials Unit at Vanderbilt."

Alexia Cabrera is the owner and chef of Nola Restaurant in Nasvhille.  Ms. Cabrera was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where she inherited her love of cooking from her Italian grandmother, and began formally studying gastronomy at the age of twelve. Ms. Cabrera has traveled widely in Central America and Mexico. She has a degree in Business Administration and Marketing. In 2201, she came to the U.S. and has lived in San Francisco, Miami and Orlando, before settling in Nashville and opening her own restaurant.

José Amden is an Argentinean international management consultant. In 2000, Mr. Amden, who is originally from Argentina, moved to the U. S., where he earned an M. B. A. in Marketing and Finance from Vanderbilt University. Mr. Amden specializes in helping companies with their sales and marketing efforts. He lectures on marketing fundamentals for businesses and discusses how they affect marketing initiatives in different countries.