Our Instructors

Kusum Knapczyk, Lead Instructor

Kusum Knapczyk received her PhD in Hindi literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. She is currently serving as a Hindi lecturer at Duke University. Before joining Duke in 2016. Kusum taught Hindi at SASLI (South Asia Summer Language Institute) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Colorado Boulder and Indiana University, Bloomington and University of Texas at Austin. A fully certified ACTFL OPI and WPT tester for Hindi Kusum joined YHS STARTALK students program in 2012 and at Franklin, NJ in 2017. This year she is leading the instructors team at YHS STARTALK at North Wales, PA.

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