Education

1997                Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language, Northern Arizona University

1993                Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Utah State University (USU), Logan, Utah.

1993                Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, Utah State University, (USU), Logan, Utah.

Selected Professional Experience

8/01-present     ESL Program Director/Assistant Professor, Utah Valley State College 

10/02-12/04     Editor, Intermountain Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

(I-TESOL) Newsletter, Salt Lake City, Utah.  

7/02-8/02         Teacher-Trainer, University of Utah International Academic Outreach & Continuing

                        Education Program, Beijing, China. 

8/00-5/01         Lecturer, State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY-SB), ESL Program,

Stony Brook, New York.  

7/98-6/00         Instructor, The American University in Cairo, USAID, English Language Testing

and Training Program (ELTTP), Cairo, Egypt.  

9/98-12/98       Volunteer Instructor, St. Andrew’s Refugee Program, Cairo, Egypt.  

7/97-6/98         Lecturer, Intensive English Language Institute (IELI), USU, Logan, UT.  

7/96-5/97         Intensive English Program Instructor, Program in Intensive English, NAU, Flagstaff, AZ. 

9/95-12/95       Social Security Paralegal, Coconino County Legal Aid, Flagstaff, AZ. 

5/93-8/95         Migrant Farmworker Unit Paralegal, Idaho Legal Aid Services, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID.