Makenzie George is a first-year master's student in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on AI-assisted pronunciation feedback for L2 learners. She investigates the effectiveness of current AI models and how they can assist L2 learners in pronunciation feedback.

Makenzie got her bachelor's from the University of Dayton, where she played D1 golf and graduated with a Bachelor's in finance. She worked in Investment Banking for Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse and now runs a language agency, LTC Language Solutions.