In this episode, I speak with Margarita de Antuñano. She moved from Mexico to Canada when she was 22 years old. She shares her immigration story with us today.
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Learn more about Margarita de Antuñano
Margarita de Antuñano
Margarita De Antuñano has as worked as a cross-cultural trainer and curriculum developer since 1993 with expertise in assisting expatriate employees and their families transitioning to new cultures and facilitating group business training for people working across cultural borders for global corporations. She has also trained for United Nations, Canadian Government agencies and International Relocation companies in the USA and Canada.
Born in Mexico, she achieved her undergraduate degree at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. She received a scholarship to undertake her Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Adult Education /Comparative International and Language Learning Education at the University of Toronto. She is the founder and director of the Canada-Mexico Cultural Exchange Centre Inc. www.canadamexico.com, a one-stop that facilitates the links between Canada and the world. She has coordinated the Spanish Program at HSC, a prestigious private school in Ontario, for eleven years and trains Spanish Teachers.
Margarita has lived in Mexico and Canada and travelled globally. She has attended and presented several seminars at International Conferences like the Ontario Modern Language Teachers’ Association (OMLTA), the Future Generations Alliance Foundation, to mention a few. She is the recipient of prestigious awards.
A citizen of the world herself, in her spare time, she enjoys travelling and hiking with her Canadian husband and her polyglot ( speaks three languages) daughter. She also enjoys following Emilia McCarthy to sets around the world with her acting career. Emilia was Brad Pitt's daughter in the Golden Globe movie BABEL, Disney and more.
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