Commercial Property : Suny Study Abroad

Thursday 22 November 2012

Suny Study Abroad

Ms. Crimmins Villela was previously the Senior Associate Director of SUNY’s Office of International Programs, and prior to that, Director of Programs for Latin America, during which time she worked to establish SUNY’s office in Mexico City. Before coming to the Office of International Programs, she resided in Mexico where she served as Deputy Chief-of-Party of SUNY’s Center for International Development’s Mexican Congressional Support Project. Prior to that, she worked as a Staff Associate at the Center for International Development on projects in Brazil and Hungary, during which time she worked on the establishment of the International Education Institute of Brazil, a now-independent NGO which carries on the work initiated by the grant-funded project.

Ms. Crimmins has studied, worked and resided in Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Portugal and has taught Portuguese language at both Union College and the University at Albany, and English as a Foreign Language at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. She attended the University at Albany where she received her BA in Spanish Linguistics, conducted MS studies in TESOL and advanced graduate studies in language acquisition and education.