Richard Ponce de Leon

Richard originally hails from Lima, Peru, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in linguistics. In 2015, he came to the United States and now calls Nashville home.

He boasts over five years of foreign trade and project management experience and is a court-registered Spanish interpreter. Richard joined the University of Tennessee Language Center in 2019 as an interpretation project manager and is pursuing a master's degree in higher education administration at the University of Tennessee.

In his free time, Richard can be found taking pictures, developing film or traveling around the state.