Allison Spenader

Allison Magda Spenader is dean at Sjölunden, the Swedish Language Village. Magda has been on staff at Concordia Language Villages for 18 years, and was a villager for one year at Sjölunden. She is fluent in Swedish and has studied Polish, Finnish, Chinese and German.

Magda received her bachelor’s degree in Scandinavian Studies and her master’s degree in ESL at the University of Illinois. She holds a doctorate degree in second languages and cultures education from the University of Minnesota.

Magda was an AFS exchange student to Uppsala, Sweden, and has subsequently studied at the University of Stockholm, as well as Jagiellonian University, in Krakow, Poland. She has taught Swedish at the University of Minnesota and at the American Swedish Institute.