Jennifer de Lima is a board member of ISLA (Immersion for Spanish Language Acquisition). ISLA is a nonprofit organization in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, that seeks to strengthen Latino children and their families through innovative Spanish immersion programs. ISLA includes a Saturday Spanish heritage language program, now serving over 160 students and their families. Jennifer is founder of Immersion Island, which offers language immersion camps and experiences for children and adults, also in North Carolina. She has taught middle school Spanish in Chapel Hill area schools for over 20 years. She has international business and nonprofit experience in California. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine, in Spanish Literature and Language. She also speaks fluent Portuguese.

Mariano Alejandro Escutia Ochoa, Ph.D. (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Metropolitan Autonomous University, UAM, Mexico City)is a professor in the Language Faculty of the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) in the city of Tecate. He teaches courses in Spanish discourse analysis, syntax, and morphology. As part of this program, he is doing a dissertation focused on the teaching of Spanish as a heritage language in a binational region, San Diego and Tijuana.

Mariano specializes in geolinguistics, bilingualism, and heritage languages. He earned a Bachelors's Degree in Language Teaching (2016) and a Master's Degree in Modern Languages (2018) at UABC. He is the leader of the Foreign Languages Academy at the Facultad de la Ingenieria y Tecologia (FCITEC-UABC), and he has implemented new strategies to teach language to commuter students.

Teresita J. Eldredge is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Urban Education at Rutgers University, lecturing in Curriculum & Instruction and Understanding Educational Evaluation. She has served in Jersey City Public Schools since 2001, as a Spanish and ESL Instructor. In June 2015, she spoke on her expertise with developing language acquisition curricula at a discussion panel for the Eighth Heritage Language Research Institute at Harvard University.

At Liberty High School, she serves on the School Improvement Panel; the AP-Advance Placement Team; and the Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying Committee and the Assessment Committee; as the school data coordinator; and as New Jersey Future Education Association advisor. She has developed ESL, Chinese, English, French, Italian, and Spanish Language Curricula for Jersey City Public Schools since 2003.

She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish Language Education at Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University in Lima, Peru in 1995; and worked as an English Language professor at the Peruvian Police Academy from 1995 to 1998. She earned a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics in 2009, and a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership in 2017, both at Montclair State University.