Sarah Matthews currently teaches courses in Spanish and Liberal Studies at Aquinas College and Grand Valley State University. She is active in the local Spanish Immersion community and assisted in the founding and direction of the Rockford Spanish Immersion Preschool, Hola Amigos, which was the impetus for the creation of the K-12 Spanish Immersion Program in the Rockford Public Schools. Sarah’s interests are interdisciplinary and include second language acquisition, immigration and migration in the Americas, and contemporary literary representation of female immigrant voices.