Mónika Aldarondo
Visual Arts Faculty
Senior Project Coordinator

Ms. Aldarondo is a member the Visual Arts faculty, and co-leads the
12/11 seminar team, which facilitates the Senior Grant Project and
college process for juniors and seniors. She was an intern in the
Visual Arts department at BAA during the 2006-07 year. Ms. Aldarondo
received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education with a focus in
community education from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a
Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida in Journalism with
an emphasis on magazine design. She was a Poynter Institute Fellow in
St. Petersburg, Florida. Ms. Aldarondo spent one year abroad in the
Dominican Republic training volunteers to found preschools in five
mountain villages, translating for medical teams, and teaching adult
literacy. She has taught in art programs at City on a Hill Charter
Public School, Sociedad Latina, MassArt Saturday Studios and the Lilla
G. Fredrick Pilot Middle School. She was recognized as Sociedad
Latina's volunteer of the year for 2006. Within her artistic
practices, she focuses on photography, papermaking, and digital
design. She is currently working on a documentary on her family’s
migration from Puerto Rico to New York City in the 1950s. Her current
academic interests are in looking at the shift in how digital natives
learn and how teachers can adjust their practices to best engage them.