About Me

Dr. Sandra Galindo is a college distance educator and online course designer who has taught face to face and online courses at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), Alamo Colleges District (SAC, PAC, and NVC), California State University East Bay (CSUEB), San Francisco State University (SFSU), and Southern New Hampshire University Global Campus.

Dr. Galindo has taught face-to-face, online, and design asynchronous college courses since 2016 working in different learning managment systems such as Canvas, Balckboard, and Moodle

Dr. Galindo has a Ph.D. in Culture, Literacy, and Language, an M.A. in Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, both from the University of Texas at San Antonio, an M.Ed on Lifelong Learning and Adult Education Program (Global Online and Distance Education Option) at Penn State University and a B.A. in Communications. Her doctoral dissertation titled “Media representation of immigration in a migrant provider and migrant receptor country: A critical discourse analysis” was a semifinalist in the American Association for Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Outstanding dissertation competition in 2013.

Dr. Galindo's experience in higher education is a continuation of years of teaching in universities both in Mexico and the United States. Dr. Sandra Galindo taught, from 2008 to 2012, cultural and linguistic diversity courses at the upper level at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). In her native Mexico, Sandra Galindo taught upper-level courses in Media and Media Production in the Universidad Autonoma del Noreste (UANE).

Dr. Galindo worked for 16 years both in Mexico and the United States as a reporter and editor in Spanish language media. Currently, Dr. Galindo is working in several books and other publications while she continues with her research, and teaching.

Research interests are, but not limited to Media and Latinos, Immigration & Migration, Pop Culture, Culture and Media, Media Literacy, Media and gender, Media and minorities, adult eucation, andragogy, and Diversity in distance education.