Associate Professor, Department of Pedagogy, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. BS Pedagogy (1982, with Honors), BS Primary School Teacher (1983), MS Speech and Language Therapy (1991), PhD in Education from the Complutense University of Madrid (1995), and MS Special Education at Hunter College of the City University of New York (1988). Previous work experience includes Educational Evaluator in the NYC Department of Education (1985-1997) and Assistant Professor of Education at IE University (Spain, 1997-2008). She has worked on service-learning with higher education students for 25 years. She is a researcher, consultant and author of more than 80 articles, book chapters, and books on civic engagement and service-learning. Past research interests include teacher training and childhood health education. She is the Founder President of the Spanish Association of Service-Learning in Higher Education (2017-2020), the European Association of Service-Learning in Higher Education (2019-2022), and the European Observatory of Service-Learning in Higher Education (2019-2022). She is a member of the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship (USA, 2021). Awards: Complutense University of Madrid (Distinction as Promoter of Service-Learning, 2019) and the General Directorate of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture of the European Commission ("Success Story" for the leadership of the project "Europe Engage", 2018).