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Kendra leads SMARTHINKING's Spanish Team. In addition to tutoring, Kendra manages E-structor® Certification for Spanish tutors. Kendra received her PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in Spanish Linguistics and, currently, is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Western Washington University. She brings over twelve years of teaching experience to the SMARTHINKING team, having taught beginning through advanced Spanish and Portuguese at the college level. Her main research interests include contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, and second-language acquisition. Kendra is investigating language contact on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border and has presented her theoretical models and findings at national and regional conferences. | 