The Intercambio Blog

You, the Intercambio community, have supported Intercambio’s potential through thick and thin for 20 years. What started as a dream of two guys in their twenties is now impacting thousands of immigrants and volunteer teachers locally and nationwide. Shawn Camden and Lee Shainis founded Intercambio in Boulder in 2001 after informally teaching English classes for […]

Catch up with Intercambio in this edition of the Community Journal! Get updates on our newest programs and meet the faces behind them, plus hear more about how online classes are going after a year and a half. You won’t want to miss it!

After spending his career focusing on language development and speech-language pathology, Philip Prinz wanted to stay connected to his passion for language in retirement. He became one of the first volunteers for CC English, a new Intercambio program that equips students and volunteers around the nation to learn together virtually while embracing The Intercambio Way®.   CC English […]

Deepa McCauley has a special connection to the Intercambio student experience. As a first-generation immigrant from India, she spent much of her childhood interpreting for her parents who hardly spoke any English. The responsibility was often at odds with being a kid, yet Deepa’s parents counted on her. “I know that children right now are […]

Intercambio’s new online platform, CC English, was recently featured in EdTech Center at World Education’s study titled Creating Equitable Access to Remote Adult ESOL: Multiple Contexts, Distinct Populations, and Diverse Purposes. Over the winter and spring months of 2021, World Education, Inc. set out to find “promising remote ESOL instruction with the potential to reshape […]