Biography:
Rachel Mamiya Hernandez is a Language and Technology Faculty Specialist at the Center for Language & Technology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She has over 15 years of experience teaching Spanish and Portuguese at the university level. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies, an MA in Second Language Studies with a concentration in Language Teaching, and a PhD in Learning Design and Technology. Some of her professional interests include language acquisition and teaching, project-based learning, online intercultural exchanges, social justice, and instructional design. She has worked with K-12 and higher ed faculty from across the country in developing projects for a variety of languages including: Arabic, Chinese, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, among others.
