About the Authors

Diamond (Wilson) Doyle is the recipient of two recent international scholarship awards, one through a partnership with Center for American Overseas Research Centers and the West Africa Research Center and the other organized by Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour incollaboration with the French Embassy in the U.S. and the Albertine Foundation. She is a TEDx speaker on “Thinking Forward for Your Future Self: Establishing Your i +1” and the co-author of this book, Livre Libre: Beginning French. She was awarded a $50,000 Welty Grant in 2023 to work on expanding accessibility in courses using Open Educational Resources (OER). She is Tenured Faculty in the English and Foreign Language Department at Spokane Community College, and her interests center around OER, accessibility, antiracist and indigenized curriculum, decoloniality, and second language acquisition. In her free time, Diamond likes to hike and write novels.

Dr. Lisa Luengo is a passionate advocate for intercultural competence in her professional and personal life. Her dissertation “Testimony and Mythic Voyage: Memory and Forgetting of the Spanish Civil War” is a testament to giving voice to those silenced by oppression. She is a COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) trainer, participant and co-director of a UISFL grant to develop a sustainable PNW COIL center on the West coast. She is the recipient of the international scholarship award Center for American Overseas Research Centers and the West Africa Research Center. She is co-author of this book Livre Libre. She is tenure-track French faculty at Green River College where she has spearheaded four new classes, leads the French Language Lab, Club and Film Series. She is an ally in the recovery community which includes her children and regularly organizes dinners: She believes in the power of eating around the table and sharing stories. She is an aerialist.