Dr. Begoña Caballero-García, associate professor of Spanish and Wofford’s dean of diversity and inclusion, has a strong interest in social justice and anti-poverty activism. She carries that line of thinking into her classes using thematic units to illustrate how nonprofit organizations are fighting poverty in communities around the world. 
 
“I’m still teaching Spanish and all the grammar and everything that I have to teach,” she says. “I’m just using some materials for outside context about some topics that I think are important for students to be conscious about. They can bring differing opinions, different values and different points of view about a topic. They can decide what they want to think.” 
 
For her contemporary theater in Spain class, Caballero-García often chooses playwrights who have dealt with social justice topics, including immigration from Africa to Spain, LGBTQIA issues, and the treatment of the elderly, homeless people and individuals with disabilities. On three occasions, she has invited Spanish playwrights to Wofford to discuss these and other issues with students. 
 
A highlight of Caballero-Garcia’s Spanish classes is a day of cooking, another of her outside interests. 
 
“The students will look up information about recipes and present in class how they cook those, then the class will decide which of the dishes we cook together,” she says. “We cook and speak the whole time in Spanish. It’s another way of bringing people together.”