Staff

Staff


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Academic Coordinator

Abby is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics with a concentration in Second Language Acquisition. She holds an Ed.M. from the University of Massachusetts and earned her bachelor's degrees in German and Media Studies from Penn State. Before moving to New York City, she taught English abroad through Fulbright Austria, and more recently worked as an English language program administrator at a community college in Boston. She is interested in heritage language acquisition, instructed SLA, and language loss.

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Academic Coordinator

Zhizi (ZZ) is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master’s Degree of Science in Education (Teaching, Learning, and Leadership), where she also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant for the Wharton Business School. She obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in English Language and Literature from the English College, Shanghai International Studies University (上外). She also has been working as a conference and speech interpreter at more than 70 international conferences, for clients that include a U. S. Federal Chief Judge,  governors, embassy ambassadors,  provincial and municipal government senior officials, chairmen of some of the largest companies in the world, and city mayors.

Before joining Teachers College, she worked as a full-time lecturer teaching translation/conference interpreting, English debating, and English public speaking courses to English majors for two universities in China for four years, and for NC State University and Elon University as an adjunct lecturer.

When she is not busy, you will find her gardening, oil-painting, or trying to break her own DDR/Pump-It-Up record at Dave and Buster's. 

Masaki Yoshikawa
Masaki Yoshikawa
Administrative Assistant
Zhangdaiwei Xu
Academic Coordinator

Davynn is currently pursuing her M.A. in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University. She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from Zhejiang University in China. In 2023, she completed the TCSOL one-year certificate program and was inspired to continue her academic journey by pursuing her master's degree. Before this, she dedicated a decade to teaching Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) to students ranging from pre-kindergarten to college.

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