Katrina Spillane, is an English teacher and coordinator of the English Program at the Universidad Nacional de Agricultura in Catacamas, Olancho. Since she has begun working there in July of 2008, she has designed and begun to implement an ambitious English Language Certification Program for all boarding students and professors. Most of the classes that she has taught at the University have inlcuded Miskito, Pech or Garifuna students. She holds a Masters Degree in International development from the University of Pittsburgh, where most of her research was focused on education in Honduras. She obtained a TESOL certification from TEFL International in Seville, Spain and has experienced teaching ESL/EFL in Honduras, Spain and the US. 
Aria Galletti has been teaching English at the Universidad Nacional de Agricultura in Catacamas, Olancho since February 2010. In addition to teaching university students, she is currently the main teacher for the Faculty English Program which was initiated this academic year. She holds a Master of Arts degree in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco where her research focused on international student adjustment at U.S. universities. Additionally, she completed a Cambridge CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) in London, United Kingdom. She has over five years of English teaching experience and has taught students from many different parts of the world in Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 
Laurel Strozier is an English teacher at the Universidad Nacional de Agricultura and her students there represent a diverse population of various ethnic and indigenous cultures. She has also been a volunteer ESL teacher for immigrants within the United States. Her undergraduate degree is in International Studies and Spanish from Maryville College in Tennessee, and her thesis was about U.S. and Latin American political and economic relations. Since graduation, she has been doing research on popular education and Paulo Freire´s Pedagogy of the Opressed, a topic that she was introduced to at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. Katrina Spillane, Aria Galletti, and Laurel Strozier will present a plenary on "Multicultural Inclusion in the English Classroom: Voices of ethnic and indigenous students". The Organizing Committee of the VI National Conference for Teachers of Engllish welcomes Katrina, Aria and Laurel.
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