B.A., Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso
M.A., Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain
About:
Professor Figueroa is originally from Chile but has lived in the U.S. for over six years. She joined the Gordon faculty in the fall of 2022 as a Spanish adjunct. She became interested in intercultural communication as a child and later on married an American native, Dr. Jeff Stevenson, with whom she's raising three bilingual children. Her academic interests include bilingualism and cross-cultural competence. Professor Figueroa's teaching experience includes graphic design software instruction at the postgraduate level, mentoring college students from the Middlebury College Study Abroad program during their semester(s) in Chile, teaching Spanish at the high school level, homeschooling her own children, and tutoring in their homeschool Classical Conversations community. She is currently completing a Master of Arts in Theological Studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.