José Lucas Badué
Mr. Badué is a native Manhattanite of Cuban and Spanish descent. He completed the Great Books Curriculum and was awarded the International Baccalaureate at The Tutoring School of New York. Furthermore, he was an American Field Service exchange student at the American School of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mr. Badué went on to Georgetown University where he majored in European History and minored in Portuguese Language and Luso-Brazilian Literature. While at Georgetown, he studied abroad at the University of Dijon in France, where he was awarded the Diplôme de Français. Mr. Badué earned a master’s degree in Sephardic History from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Soon thereafter, he was conferred a master’s degree in the Teaching of Spanish at the Columbia University Teachers College, specializing in Spanish-language education for speakers of West Germanic languages. Mr. Badué has over thirty years of experience teaching classical and world languages, history, and science from pre-K to the graduate level. Apart from writing curricula for various academic disciplines, he has taught at several secondary institutions in the United States and abroad. Apart from being an educator, Mr. Badué was the founding editor of Random House Español, and has published over thirty translations in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.