Carla Suhr

Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA

Dr. Carla Suhr focuses her academic work on the interaction between culture, language, and cognition as a way to improve cross-cultural communication. She has worked in the field of Spanish linguistics and experiential learning for the past 13 years at organizations such as Universidad Complutense de Madrid and University of New Haven. She currently teaches Spanish and Service-learning in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, from which she emphasizes the positive learning outcomes attained from connecting students with the community.