Emily Andrea Sendin is a professor of English, literature, and creative writing at Miami Dade College with over two
decades of teaching experience. She is the two time recipient of the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana Foundation and

Arthur H. Hertz Endowed Teaching Chairs. Sendin is also a Fulbright Scholar, Florida Campus Compact Service-
Learning Faculty of the Year for the College Sector, and Florida College System Activities Association Hall of Fame

Inductee. Her areas of expertise are feminist, postcolonial, and media studies. She has several publications on
escape rooms, civic engagement, and media literacy. She teaches global sustainability and Earth literacy studies,
service-learning and Honors College courses. Sendin is the founding advisor of Urbana, the award-winning literary
and arts magazine of the Padrón Campus. She is also the founding advisor to Hermione’s Army, a chapter of
Fandom Forward, an international organization dedicated to activism through the power of storytelling. She
recently founded Gamma Eta, the Padrón Campus chapter of Sigma Kappa Delta National English Honor Society.
She is also the founder of FNE International’s Tengo un Sueño and Hermandad MaryKnoll High School supporting
the educational journeys of youth in rural Nicaragua. Her life’s passions are teaching, writing, traveling and serving.