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	Deana Alonso-Post
	Deana Alonso-Post was born and raised in Mexico City. After graduating from High School and studying for a year at the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) her family moved to The United States. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mathematics and two Master’s Degrees: one in Spanish, with emphasis on Linguistics from San Diego State University and the other one in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from California State University, Los Angeles. She served for four years as consultant and teacher leader at the Los Angeles Area Site of the California Foreign Language Project (LASTARS) before joining the team in San Diego in 2005. As a consultant for Southern Area International Language Network, (SAILN) Deana works with SASU and LARC to train World Language teachers.
In addition, Deana has written several textbooks: a textbook of Spanish for Spanish Speakers (Entre mundos, 1996, 2004) and the Workbook to Accompany Entre Mundos 2nd Ed. Both books published by Prentice Hall and an introductory level college Spanish textbook (Invitaciones, 2004, 2009) for Vista Higher Learning. She is also a frequent presenter at ACTFL and CLTA. She has been teaching Spanish for twenty two years, the last fifteen at Southwestern College where she was honored with the Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award in 2005. Deana is presently the president of the Foreign Language Council of San Diego. She has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Latin America.

Deana Alonso-Post was born and raised in Mexico City. After graduating from High School and studying for a year at the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) her family moved to The United States. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mathematics and two Master’s Degrees: one in Spanish, with emphasis on Linguistics from San Diego State University and the other one in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from California State University, Los Angeles. She served for four years as consultant and teacher leader at the Los Angeles Area Site of the California Foreign Language Project (LASTARS) before joining the team in San Diego in 2005. As a consultant for Southern Area International Language Network, (SAILN) Deana works with SASU and LARC to train World Language teachers.