LUCIA GALLENO V.
9221Arbourgate Meadows Lane, Charlotte, NC 28277
Emails: [email protected] or [email protected] 704-460-8244
Summary
Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish, Italian, French); M.S. in Organizational
Development; MA Counseling in Education; Advanced MA work in Spanish Language and Literature;
B.A. in Linguistics and Literature. Business courses: Conflict Resolution, Marketing Business
Administration and Money & Banking. Over16 years as researcher in Social Sciences and the
Humanities, Spanish professor, translator/interpreter. Currently leading the Group Developing
Motivational Interviewing in Latin America.
Licenses: License Professional Counselor Associate (LPCA)
License Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS)
Clinical supervisor: Kathleen Connolly, PhD, PC, 704-331-0160 [email protected]
Education
Queens University of Charlotte, McColl School of Business, Executive Coaching Certificate 2013
Courses: Intro Coaching Theories & Applications, Advanced Coaching Theories & Practice,
Coaching Practicum
Center for Applied Cognitive Studies, “Big Five Profile” Certificate 2013
Queens University of Charlotte, McColl School of Business, MS in Organizational Development 2012
Capstone “What impact does self-awareness have on personal orientation to change?”
Courses: Conflict Resolutions, Leadership Development, Applied Research Methodology &
Statistics, Managerial Finance, Hyper-Connected Innovation, Group Dynamics, Introduction to
Organization Development, Entrepreneurship, Advanced Topics in Organizational Development,
Management Consulting, Capstone Practicum in Organizational Development, Transformational
Change
Gardner-Webb University, Psychology & Counseling Department, MA in Counseling in Education
2009
University of California, Berkeley, Spanish & Portuguese Department, Ph.D. Romance
Languages and Literatures
2001
Catholic University of Peru, Advanced studies in MA Language and Literature 1995
Catholic University of Peru, B.A. Linguistics and Literature 1993
Other Business Courses: Marketing for the Arts and Nonprofit Organizations (2009 graduate level);
Marketing, Business Administration (graduate level, 2001); Organizational Behavior (2001); Senior
Seminar in Business Administration (2001), Money & Banking (2001).Management: Employment
Human Relations (1986); Personnel Management (1986)
Continuing personal enhancement
The UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center’s Summer Institute for Educators (SIE) Integrating
social-emotional learning and mindfulness into the classroom. (July 23-28 UC Berkeley, 2016)
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Ira Progoff Intensive Journaling Program (June 13-18, Buzzard Bay, MA -Sacred Heart- 2016)
The Science of Happiness, Greater Good Science Center, online course exploring the roots of a happy,
meaningful life. Co-taught by the GGSC’s Dacher Keltner and Emiliana Simon-Thomas (2015)
Living School for Action and Contemplative Prayer, guided by Richard Rohr, Cynthia Bourgeault, and
Jim Finley. This program focuses on the study of human spirituality and growth. This is a rigorous twoyear study and practice program (2015-expected completion August 2017).
The Power of Awareness with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brack (a seven-week online mindfulness training
to cultivate compassion, clarity, and well-being) (2015)
Training in Oral Proficiency Interview at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
(29 hours), November 2010, Boston.
North Carolina Writers’ Conference. Asheville, November 4-6, 2005, NC.
The Thirteenth Writing Accross the Curricula Conference, Wildacres, October 7-9, 2005, NC.
Yoga 200 + hours certificate (2010)
Work experience
Higher Education
Queens University of Charlotte, 2008-current. Associate Professor Responsible for advising students,
creating courses, conducting research, and promoting the offer of the World Languages Department.
Member of the Faculty Council since Spring 2014 to the present.
Courses taught: Spanish 370 Dangerous Women, Spanish 351Culture and Civilization of Spain, Spanish
455 Spanish American Theater & Poetry, Panoramic View; Span 444 Spanish American Short Stories;
Span 410 & 420 Intensive Grammar Structures; 370 Hispanoamerican Humor; 370 Contemporary
Iberoamerican Culture; 370NWI Diary of Contemporary Traveler; 370 NW01 Daring to Write/El Descaro
de Escribir; Span 360 Issues of Hispanic Life; Span 350 Hispanic Literature; Span 349 Commercial
Spanish; Span 310 Advanced Grammar & Translation; Span 220 & 230 Intermediate Spanish; Span 101
& 102 Beginning Spanish, John Belk International Program prep classes Spanish & Italian for 2010,
2011, 2012, and Core 222 (two consecutive years).
Coaching and Counseling
Happy Minds LLC (private practice): I’ve been offering Life and Career Coaching, Motivational
Interviewing training since 201. My practice is guided by principles of neuroplasticity and
psycholinguistics.
Family First, part-time Counselor. From 2015 to April 2016 I served the Dove’s Nest program (Women
in recovery).
Translator
Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers: translated “Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Social
Justice”, MI’s Glossary, and co-translated Treatment Integrity of Motivational Interviewing.
Center for Applied Cognitive Studies, translator of the “Big Five Profile” and the “School Placement”
(English to Spanish), 2010-2014, NC.
Universal Studios, International Sales Division. Prepared the monthly reports of international sales and
analyzed and compared data. Interpreted and translated and was the public relations link in the
international sales division for Latin America, 1986-1987, CA.
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William D. Crader, Attorney at law, immigration: interpreter/translator 1986, CA
Publications
Galleno, Lucía (2016). “A case of complexity in the Latin American family: Tracing the
Galleno Villafán history” (2016). Confluenze, Rivista di Studi Latinoamericani Vol 8, No 1
https://confluenze.unibo.it/issue/view/574
Galleno, Lucía (2015). “Lessons from My Son.” Nos Pasamos de la Raya, Abismos
editorial, México in 2015.
Galleno, Lucía & Franzenith De La Calle, Trans. (2014). “La Entrevista Motivacional y la
Justicia Social,” (Miller’s original work published in 2013), Motivational Interviewing Training,
Research, Implementation Practice, Vol 1, No 3.
http://www.mitrip.org/ojs/index.php/mitrip/article/view/56/81
Galleno, Lucia & Liscano Marcela (2013). “Revitalizing the Self: Assessing the Relationship
between Self-Awareness and Orientation to Change,” International Journal of Humanities and
Social Sciences, 3(16), 62-71.
Galleno, Lucia (2013). “El Desierto”(poetic short story). Label Me Latina/o Fall 2013/Vol
3, 1. http://labelmelatin.com/?cat=17
Galleno, Lucia (2012). Viajando en tiempos de guerra. Confluenze: Rivista di Studi
Iberoamericani, Vol 4, No 1, 112-121. http://confluenze.unibo.it/issue/view/334/showToc
Galleno, Lucia (2012). Sugar Cane (poem), Label Me Latina/o Fall 2012/Vol 2, 1
http://labelmelatin.com/
Galleno, Lucia (2004). La Boca del Lobo o la Exterminación de la Otredad. Pachaticray (trans.
The World Upside down). In Mark Cox (Ed.), El cuento peruano en los años de violencia
(pp.139-146). Lima: Editorial San Marcos and Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo
Polar
Galleno, Lucia (2000) In the Wolf’s Mouth. The Center for Latin American Studies.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Research/graduate/summer2000//galleno/galleno.html.Decembe
r 12, 2000.
“Letter to the Editor regarding current events.” El Comercio 29 de septiembre de 2000: A16,
Perú.
Presentations
“Holding on to Love and Family throughout the Immigration Journey,” Society for the American
Women Writers, panel “The Waltons, Chicana-style”: (Re) Writing Family in Contemporary
Chicana/Latina Writings, November 4-8, 2015, Philadelphia.
“And since I do not want to kneel, I start to walk,” this paper was delivered at the University of
California, Berkeley, symposium in honor of Dr. Dru Dougherty, February, 2015, Berkeley.
“Herencias que Matan: Rompiendo la Asimetría Cultural por los Niños Invisibles del Perú.” My
paper was part of the session titled Dimensions of violence in Latin America. Latin American
Studies Association 2014 (LASA), Congress, May 21 – 24, Chicago.
“There is Nothing Like a Good Drama: Learning to Say How We Think and Feel.” Based on Dr.
Galleno’s teaching methodology in collaboration with Chair Liliana Wendorff, the
Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC) Fall Conference 10, 2013, NC.
“Hybrid Writing” 10th Annual South East Costal Conference on Languages & Literatures,
Department of Foreign Languages, Georgia Southern University, April 4-5, 2013, GA.
“No Me Toquen Ese Vals’ & the lament left by terrorism,” VI International Conference,
Transatlantic Poetics: Toward a Cross-Cultural Syntax, at Brown University, April 11-14, 2012,
NY.
“Viajando por los Andes con Nirvardo Portugal,” at the SouthEast Costal Conference on
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Languages & Literatures, Department of Foreign Languages, Georgia Southern University,
March 29, 2012, GA
“The Denture of my Beloved,” at the 18th Annual Carolina conference on Romance Literature
Visual Reading: Images, Perspective, and the Text, at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
March 24, 2012, NC.
“Displaced Desires: The Meaning of Life in Time of Cholera” at the 2011 William Wilson
Brown, Jr.Conference of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte April
29, 2011, NC.
“Experience and Regional Performance in Vallejo’s poem ‘Dead Idyll,’” at the Cesar Vallejo’s
Symposium, Hofstra University, October 29-31, 2008, NY
“Testimonies in ‘Vísperas’” de Luis Nieto Degregori. Presbyterian College, April 24, 2008, SC
American Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages, (current theoretical and practical
approaches in the teaching of language), El Paso, Nov. 16-18, 2007, TX.
Modern Language Association, Multicultural Theories, Dec.27-30, 2007, Chicago, IL.
“Peru’s Years of Terrorism” Modern Language Association, December 27-30, 2006, PA.
“The Cuzquenean Laughter of Enrique Rojas Paravicinio.” Second International Conference of
Peruvianists, Seville, June 1-4, 2004, Spain,
“Dark Humor in the Andes.” South Central MLA, October 30th, Hot Springs, 2003, NC.
“Matters of Love in Love in the Time of Cholera.” American College of Physicians-American
Society of Internal Medicine, 2003, Arkansas.
“Pricking the Female Body with a Puppet’s Smirk: a Metaphor of Sociopolitical and Cultural
Violence (Peru, 1980-1993).” LASA, March 29, 2003, Dallas.
“Urban Performance: Lima, a Broken City.” XXXIV Congress of Literature and Other Arts in
Latin America. University of Iowa, July 2, 2002, IA.
“Mourning the Years of Terrorism: Peru, 1980-1993.” Second Annual Seminar of the
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics: Memory, Atrocity and Resistance, Monterrey,
Nuevo León, June 20, 2001, México.
“The Representation of Violence in the film La Boca del Lobo: Terrorism and the Dirty War in
Peru.”
The Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2000, CA.
“Creative Writing and Peer Editing: Teaching students to Become Masters of Horror and
Melodrama.”
ACTFL Presentation April 15, University of California, Berkeley, 2000, CA.
“How to Incorporate Music in the Cultural Context of the Short Story to Achieve Better Reading
Comprehension.” The Foreign Language Association of Northern California. Fall Conference,
1999, CA.
“The Andean Peasants during the Peruvian Colony.” MLA annual meeting, Toronto, 1997,
Canada.
“Andean Women’s Sexuality.” The Latinas’ Vision for Transforming Americas Conference,
Southern Connecticut University, 1996, IA.
Service to the community
 Leader of the Humanitarian Cuban Project: Developing Motivational Interviewing in Cuba 2014
to the present.
 Chair of “Developing MI in Latin America,” cultural connector (2012 to present)
 Board member of the Center of Prevention Services, August 2013 to September 10, 2014
Coach. Coached graduate student of MSEC at Queens 8/11/2013-8/15/2013
Coach to members to the Center for Prevention Services, Charlotte, April-May, 2013 to current
 Co-leader John Belk International Program, Italy. Taught Italian, May 2012
 Member of the Editorial Review Board of electronic journal Label Me Latina/o August, 2011
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Originator of the exchange program between Gardner-Webb and the University of León, Spain at
Gardner-Webb University, 2006
Created and coordinated the Latin Gathering, a variety show in which students performed
bicultural works, Gardner-Webb University, Spring 2006
Developed the exchange program between Arkansas Tech University and the University of
León, Spain 2004
Advocated and coordinated cultural diversity at Arkansas Tech University 2004
Founded and sponsored the Hispanic Student Association at Arkansas Tech University 20022005
Mentored ten Hispanic students in the program “Bridge to Excellence” at Arkansas Tech
University 2003
Professional Associations
Latin American Studies Association
California Alumni
Chi Sigma Iota, Counseling Academic and Professional Honor Society International
Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT since 2011)
Member of the Berkeley Film and Media since 1999
Languages
Spanish: native
French: intermediate/advanced
Italian: advanced
English: superior
Hobbies: dancing, singing, painting, hiking, and exploring cultures
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