Susan Hillyard, B.Ed.(Hons) Warwick University (U.K.) has work experience in seventeen countries as a teacher, director, speaker, workshop facilitator, consultant, researcher, on-line tutor. She was Prof. Language IV in Lenguas Vivas and UTN, Bs As. She is a NILE Associate Trainer, in Norwich, UK. She has co-authored a Resource Book for Teachers Global Issues for OUP and TDI-TKT On-line Course for Pearson, New York. Moderator EVO Drama on-line course for TESOL and on-line tutor on the Masters in ELT, La Sabana University, Colombia. Now coordinator: English in Action, teaching English through Drama in Special Education, Ministry of Education, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A life-long learner who has been teaching for 32 years and coordinating since 1990, she co-founded Río de la Plata SUR and is its Head of English. Lucrecia is a Neurosicoeducator , with a Self-Esteem Practitioner Degree. She has studied Brain Based Learning overseas, and has been successfully putting the model into practice for the last fourteen years. She has spoken at countless conferences and seminars throughout the country and abroad sharing her passion for the brain and the role of emotions in learning and is now an International Teacher Trainer for Oxford University Press and a Speaker for Asociación Educar. Deeply committed to making a positive and significant difference in her students’ lives, she has taught Literature for the IGCSE Exams, is a “retired actress” who worships Shakespeare and a loving mother to Juan and Jazmin.

Maria Celeste Grimau holds a degree of Profesora de Inglés graduated from Instituto Santa Brígida. She is the director of STEPS – Cross Cultural Understanding - and has been Head of English Department of "Colegio Del Sol". She has contributed articles on education to the Buenos Aires Herald and offered a number of workshops in Argentina and Chile. She is the director of Tick Tack Toe a magazine in English for parents and children. She is a storyteller and specializes in storytelling as a teaching tool as well as games to teach languages. She has developed her own methodology based on the use of games in the classroom. She has been a presenter in many international conferences for teachers of English in Argentina and Chile. She is a member of ARTESOL Board and at the moment she is studying drama at the Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro. Celeste is a passionate teacher who considers teaching as her mission.

Martín Rechimuzzi es Actor y Licenciado en Ciencia Política de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Desarrolla la técnica de improvisación desde 2004 aplicándola no sólo a ámbitos artísticos sino también empresariales y educativos. Trabajó como actor en la compañía The Buenos Aires Players durante 3 temporadas. Trabaja desde el 2004 con diversas compañías de Improvisación y es fundador del grupo de improvisaciones Impropark.  

Gustavo González

Gustavo González graduated as a teacher of English at I.S.F.D. N° 5 in Pergamino and holds a postgraduate degree from UBA, the National University of Buenos Aires. He’s currently attending a postgraduate diploma course on Education and New Technologies at Flacso (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales). He has been in the ELT field since 1993, working as a teacher, school coordinator, teacher trainer and presenter. He has been delivering seminars and workshops all over Argentina, neighboring countries and Asia. He is one of the contributors to the book “Imagination, Cognition & Language Acquisition: A Unified Approach to Theory and Practice”, published by the New Jersey City University and has also written some articles for IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) and other institutions. He is a teacher trainer for the Oxford Teachers’ Academy. He was chosen as a trainer for the Program “Conectar Igualdad” offered by Dirección de Cultura y Educación de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. He is a former vice president of APIBA, the Buenos Aires English Teachers’ Association and former vice president of FAAPI, the Argentine Federation of English Teachers’ Associations.