15-11-2023
#9 Alicia Rueda-Acedo - Academia´s impact in the community through successful collaborations
Alicia Rueda-Acedo is an Associate Professor at the University of Arlington (USA) and in this episode she shares with us multiple aspects of her professional journey:
-how to handle the beginnings of a professional career if you realize that what you are studying is not the type of field in which you would like to work
-the value of volunteering at the end of the studies to identify what role would best suit you
-comparison between the European and American academic system
-how to become a professor in the American academic system
-to do or not to do a PhD?
-the value of service learning and how academia can have a tremendous impact in the community through successful collaborations with different NGOs and public institutions
while at the same time create opportunities for students to test different roles while still studying (translator, interpreter, multicultural mediator,
etc.)
Main takeaways:
Be proactive and flexible
Do not be afraid to change careers
About the guest:
Alicia Rueda-Acedo is a journalist, translator, and doctor in Hispanic language and Literatures
She is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Arlington (USA) where she created and directs the Spanish Translation and Interpreting Program.
Her areas of research and teaching are Spanish and Mexican Literature of the 20th century, Women’s Studies, Literary Journalism, and Community Translation and Service-learning.
She loves working with her students and different non-profits
in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
You can check her faculty profile here: https://lnkd.in/dZ6_-VhD
Enjoy the episode!!
