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Bárbara Franconi

Onsite Staff

Buenos Aires & Madrid Director

Buenos Aires, Argentina and Madrid, Spain

Barbara began working with study abroad in 2005 and has held roles including Spanish teacher, Head of Studies in the Spanish department of the “International Boreau of Language” in Buenos Aires, Academic Director of the international academy “Amauta Spanish” in charge of the Buenos Aires school and training the academic team based in Cusco. She also held literary workshop in a shelter for teenagers, has participated in documentary research on the literacy and oppression of the original peoples of northern Argentina from the field of language, and taught Spanish for refugees in ACCEM Spain. Barbara joined AIFS in 2013 as Buenos Aires Resident Director and in 2018 as Madrid Resident Director.

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