Lorenzo received his BA in Antropology from California State University, Los Angeles and his MA and PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.  He has experience working in US universities (Saint Louis University, CSU Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara) as well as Mexican ones (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa). He has participated in projects to recreate the anthropological and ethnographic experience in a virtual format, and has a continuing interest in academic exchanges--students, professors, researchers--between US and Mexican universities.

Marinés Fornerino is originally from Venezuela where she received her M.A. in Political Science from Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas).  In 2002, she earned her PhD degree in Public Policy from Indiana University on a Fulbright scholarship.  In 2004-05, Fornerino was a Fellow at Stanford University, with a joint appointment in the Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. 

Currently, she resides in Bloomington, Indiana where she is working on her forthcoming book, One Hundred Years of Liberalism: The Venezuela that Chávez Inherited and the Venezuela that Chávez is Remaking.  Fornerino is active in international, national, and local politics, working as an English/French/Spanish interpreter-translator and volunteering with various non-for-profit organizations in her immediate community.  Most recently, she was awarded the “2010 Civic Engagement ‘Citizen of the Year’ Award” by the mayor of Bloomington, Indiana.

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JoJean Hansen Loflin

Education:  BA Brigham Young University

Editor-Proofreader 1960-2005

Associate Editor, Alaska Quarterly Review, 1984-1988

Owner/Operator Medical Transcription Service 1982-1995

Medical Transcription training 1999 - 2006

JoJean Loflin’s years of experience as a primarily freelance editor and proofreader was an excellent education in preparation for the establishment of a medical transcription business, which she operated for a number of years. Following the sale of that business, she was involved with curriculum development and student support for a highly successful online medical transcription training program, which trained many thousands of students for integration and accomplishment in the medical transcription workplace. Working with productive transcriptionists and with students and graduates from every state in the U.S. and from other countries increased her appreciation for the diversity of human experience. Even more important, JoJean was impressed and inspired by the desire of students to improve their lives and situations through education and to fulfill that desire through hard work and consistent effort.