Meet Raven Chakerian-Spanish

	Raven Chakerian (2010) M.A. Instructor of Spanish, M.A. 2010 Portland State University

An Oregon native, Raven Chakerian has also studied, worked and travelled in many areas of the world including an academic year spent at the Universidad Católica de Quito in Ecuador in 1998.  During her travels she had the opportunity to acquire fluency in Spanish, French and Italian.  She is also interested in lesser known languages and has studied Quichua, Ndebele and Sicilian.

Before completing her M.A. in Spanish at Portland State University, Raven worked as a bilingual social worker for nearly ten years.Raven has been teaching Spanish courses at Portland State University and other area colleges since 2008. In 2010 she began coordinating 2^nd year Spanish at PSU in addition to teaching 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd year courses.  As well as focusing on Spanish language pedagogy, Raven is interested in sociolinguistics and bilingual-education.

Email: raven@pdx.edu