About ME

While pursuing a BA in Business I had an eye-opening study abroad experience in China that led me to pursue language learning and teaching. After graduation, I began my career in 2006 teaching English as a Foreign Language at public schools in Japan and Korea through the JET and EPIK programs. In 2009 I received a Chinese Government Scholarship to study Chinese and applied linguistics at the graduate level in Xiamen, China. In 2014 I returned to the US where for seven years I have taught multiple levels of Chinese at a boarding school in Virginia. A combined ten years of teaching English and Chinese while living and working in a variety of diverse environments has given me valuable experience, and the MAFLT program at Michigan State has sharpened and enhanced every aspect of my craft. I look forward to applying these new skills as I move into the next stage of my professional life.