About the Author

I have two great loves: spending time with my family and learning.  I am fascinated by traveling the word, exploring history and culture, and finding time to learn a language.  I'm happily married to an amazing supportive and adventurous young man and living in South Florida, enjoying life with our two dogs. We love finding new places to visit and meeting new faces. While I haven't had the time I hoped for the last endeavor, I completed my Master's in Linguistics in 2013 and hope that getting settled in a routine and career will allow me some more time for me (and my languages)!

Il mio amore ed io in Italia

I've spent my year since graduation exploring how best I'd like to use my studies.  Throughout this time, I worked several part time jobs involving language education.  I was invited back to work as an adjunct at my alma mater, Florida Atlantic University, to continue where I left off as a teaching assistant.  Soon after I began there, I realized I needed to take on more than my one university course. I began teaching ESL at Uceda English Institute where I worked closely with adult learners ranging from beginner to advanced levels in the evenings.  While I enjoyed working with my students, the night schedule was not agreeing with my lifestyle. However, it was a memorable experience and one from which I took many insights.

In the end, my true love was found at last in an opportunity to actually work on a language learning game project.  The very professor who taught my Second Language Acquisition Course recommended me to a contact with McGraw Hill as a student who had specialized in games for learning.  As it turns out, they had also caught wind of this rising star in education and were beginning development on a game for use in conjunction with University level Spanish courses. I was invited to help as an advisor on the development of quests and currently have continued into the realm of testing completed quests.

More recently I have volunteered to help write blog posts for a great new start up company that provides language resources for individual learners. Keep an eye out for my posts at Linguistadores with fun advice for anyone learning a language.

In the end, I'm just very grateful for all these great opportunities and can't wait to see where life takes me!