Name Erick Cerquera

Class Status: Senior
Hometown: Greensboro, NC
Major: Finance and International Business
Heritage: Peruvian

Associations and Leadership:

• Treasurer and founder of RITMO Latino Dance Club,
• Member of the Cameron Executive Network
• Representative of the Campus Life Advisory Board
• Studied two semesters abroad: Spain and Brazil; won scholarships for those programs.
• Recipient of the Internship Abroad Scholarship by the Cameron School of Business, completed internship in Brazil.
• UNCW Study Abroad Student Ambassador
• 2011 UNCW International Photo Contest Winner
• 2012 Business Development Intern for PPD
  

Name: Sandra Burgman
Class Status: UNCW Alumni, Fall 2011
Hometown: Caracas, Venezuela
Major: Studio Art/ Digital Art
Heritage: Born and raised in Venezuela, with parents from Cuba and Spain

Accomplishments:

• Exhibited in group and solo art exhibitions from 2009 to the present

• Volunteer for PTA and Junior Achievement

• Founding member of El Coro Latinoamericano in Pittsburgh, PA
• Member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Member of Art Circle Volunteer for Curators Club
• Winner of UNCW Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Choice Art Award in 2010 and 2011
• Awarded the Ann Flack Boseman Art Scholarship
• Awarded the Leslie N. Boney, Sr. Scholarships in Art
• Awarded the Osher Reentry Scholarship 2010, 2011

Name: Dr. Ariana Mrak

Education: Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics, University of Houston, 2000

Research Interests:  Heritage Language Education, Spanish of the United States

Heritage: Uruguayan

Recent Publications and Conference Presentations:

• “Heritage speakers and the standard: Fighting linguistic hegemony.” In Luis A. Ortiz-López (Ed.), Selected Proceedings of the 13th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 2011.
• “Empowering Spanish/English speakers in the Unites States: Reclaiming their bilingualism.” In John Watzke, Miguel Mantero and Paul Reece-Miller (Eds), Readings in Language Studies, Volume 2. Language and Power. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: International Society for Language Studies. 2010

• “A Lone is not alone: Everyone loans,” Inaugural Meeting of Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 22 Jan 2011.

• “La transferencia léxica: ¿fenómeno exclusivamente bilingüe?,” 23rd Conference on Spanish in the U.S., University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 18 Mar 2011.
• “Heritage language education and Spanish/English bilinguals,” World languages symposium: The changing landscape of language teaching, University of North Carolina Wilmington, NC, 11 Sep 2011.
• “Starting a heritage language program: Addressing the growing Hispanic student population at post-secondary institutions,” 5th International Conference on Hispanic Linguistics, 3rd Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society, University of Limerick, Ireland, 8-10 Jul 2010.