Kerisa Baedke

Kerisa Kika Baedke is dean of El Lago del Bosque, the Spanish Language Village in Marine on St. Croix, Minn., during the first half of the summer. Kika has been on staff at Concordia Language Villages since 1998. She is fluent in Spanish and French and has studied Portuguese.

Kika earned her B.A. in French and Spanish teaching and her M.A. in Spanish from the University of Northern Iowa. She studied for a semester in Colima, Mexico. After graduation, she worked for a year as a French language assistant in Beauvais, France. She has been awarded Outstanding Educator of the Year at the secondary level by the Iowa World Language Association. She is a past president of that organization.