Maria Cristina Montoya

SUNY Oneonta, United States

María Cristina Montoya is an Associate Professor at SUNY-Oneonta.

Dr. Montoya has been implementing COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) in her language courses since 2014. Her Fulbright mission in 2019, “Intercultural Competence through (COIL),” focused on forming relationships to contribute to communities in becoming global. In 2022, her work continued, as a Fulbright Specialist at Universidad del Valle, disseminating and institutionalizing COIL.

Her participation in Fulbright through the implementation of COIL program facilitates the use of technology in education to create academic/social networks to fight social injustice and form mature individuals to be respectful intercultural citizens of the world. Dr. Montoya has engaged in sustainability topics, expanding the conversation to integrate the disciplines across the curriculum and centering on issues of “environmental justice”, which provided the opportunity to participate in the Fulbright Hays seminar for higher education in Colombia on the topic of climate change, June 2024.