Sarah Harmon, CAST, UDL Certificates 1-3, California Community Colleges POCR Reviewer

Dr. Sarah Harmon is an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics and the OER/ZTC Program Manager at Cañada College, where she has taught most of her courses since 2006. She earned a B.A. in Spanish and a M.A. in Linguistics from the University of California at Davis, and a Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. She has developed online and in-person courses in Spanish and Linguistics at the collegiate level since 2006, all of which have undergone the CVC-OEI review process through the California Community College system. She co-authored Tarea Libre (2023) for first-year collegiate Spanish courses with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Nancy Meléndez-Ballesteros, also Tarea Libre 2 (2024) for second-year collegiate Spanish courses with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Hugo Díaz-Rodil. She has created a remix of Entrada Libre plus Yepes (2021) for second-year collegiate Spanish courses, and an adaptation of Essentials of Linguistics (2024) for introductory linguistics courses. Previously, she served as the faculty coordinator for OER and chaired the SMCCCD District Teaching and Learning Committee where she focused on best practices in pedagogy and online learning. Additionally, she is the outgoing Academic Coordinator of Lake Tahoe Community College’s Intensive Spanish Summer Institute (ISSI). Dr. Harmon also runs a YouTube channel, Lengua Franca, which focuses on grammar explanations for Spanish and other linguistic phenomena. She is a heritage speaker of Italian and has studied Spanish and Portuguese.