María Consuelo Digón Arroba

Maria Consuelo Digón (Chelo) worked seventeen years as a company lawyer for the Institute for Business Competitiveness (ICE) Castilla y León, Spain. She served as the Director of the Burgos department and as a board member of the University of Burgos' Consejo Social. She has also taught numerous seminars and workshops on interregional and cross-border cooperation in Europe, entrepreneurship, innovation, and support for small and medium-sized businesses through the European Regional Development Fund

In 2013 she relocated to the United States. This provided her with the unique opportunity to continue one of her strong interests: teaching. She worked as a Spanish teacher at Burns Park Elementary School and Emerson School assisting course coordination and curriculum design. Digon’s professional experience also includes teaching at Nuestra Lengua, an University of Michigan research project on bilingualism and language acquisition for Spanish native speakers. In 2022, she joined the department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.

She loves writing, drawing, traveling the world, yoga and cooking.