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    • Zoya Abramova
      Email: zabramova@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Zoya Abramova


      Bio coming soon.


    • Elinor Amlen
      Email: eamlen@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Elinor Amlen


      Ms. Elinor Amlen has been an adjunct in the Communications Skills department since 1994, and also briefly in the Humanities department. Ms. Amlen has also taught at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Ms. Amlen is a native New Yorker who has traveled all over the world to every continent on earth. She loves the diversity of the students at LaGuardia and has enjoyed the interchange of culture.


    • Mayra Baez
      Email: mbaez@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Mayra Baez


      My name is Mayra Milagros Baez. I hold a Master in Protection Management=Emergency track from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. A BS in Police Science also from John Jay. I have taught CSE / CSZ course for ELA dept from 2011. Before joining LaGuardia, I worked at John Jay College for more than 20 years under the Department: Communication and Theatre Arts ( previously Communication Skills): from reading tutor, secretary, basic skill instructor, testing proctor (Testing Office), Reading and Study Skills Lab technician (10 years). Presently, I am teaching Communication 113 ( Speech class) at John Jay and assisting Prof. Bettina Murray's class in com 128: justice and the outsider, Com 113 (speech) and Drama 110 (introduction to theatre) at John Jay college.


    • Angeles Balestra (Ibarra)
      Email: aibarra@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Angeles Balestra (Ibarra)


      Angeles Balestra is an Adjunct Lecturer at LaGuardia Community College and Queensborough Community College in the Program of Modern Languages and Literatures. She holds an AA in Liberal Arts from Nassau Community College (2000) a BS in Education from St. John’s University (2003) and MA in Spanish Language and Literature from St. John’s University ( 2008) with Certification in Latin America an Caribbean Studies and minor in Italian Language and Literature (2018). Her scholarly awards and recognition include the 1999 Dean’s List at Nassau Community College. In May 2000, Angeles Balestra was a recipient of NCC Foundation Academic Area Award in Foreign languages (Italian and Spanish). From May 2001 to 2002 she was the Dean’s List for Academic excellence in the School of Education ( 2001- 2002), and is listed in the United States Achievement Academic National Collegiate Awards, Vol.XVIII, and All- American Scholar Yearbook, Vol.19.


    • Nicholas Barrington
      Email: nbarrington@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Nicholas Barrington


      Bio coming soon.


    • Leslie Bell
      Email: lbell@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Leslie Bell


      Bio coming soon.


    • Maxine Berger 
      Email: mberger@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Maxine Berger


      Maxine Berger has been an adjunct lecturer in the Academic ESL Program since 2000. In addition, she teaches courses in the United Nations English Language Programme. She has a BA with a concentration in French from Bucknell University. She also holds an MA in French from Teachers College, Columbia University and an MA in TESOL from Hunter College. She is the co-author, with Martha Siegel, of the book New Land, New Language, published by New Readers Press in 2006 and the co-author, with Willie Mays, of the book Willie Mays,"Play Ball!" published by Simon & Schuster. She has an extensive background in the book publishing industry.


    • Oscar D. Carvalho-Nato
      Email: ocarvalhoneto@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Oscar D. Carvalho-Nato


      Mr. Oscar Carvalho-Neto is originally from Brazil, where he has taught English as a Foreign Language (EFL), and he currently work as an adjunct lecturer in the Education and Language Acquisition department at LaGuardia Community College teaching ESL and ESA courses. In addition, Mr. Carvalho-Neto has worked as a tutor at LaGuardia's Writing Center and the ESL lab. He has experience teaching and tutoring for the ACT, CPE, the recently implemented CATW as well as college-level writing, grammar and ENG/ESL labs. Working with students whose native language is not English has allowed him to gain a deeper understanding of language acquisition and the common processes students go through in L2 development, regardless of background. Interests in the field include vocabulary acquisition, code switching as in-group identity marker, interlanguage and L1 influence in L2 acquisition. Mr. Carvalho-Neto has also worked as an assistant instructor of education courses to after-school workers developed by CUNY in partnership with The Center for After-School Excellence. Having been a part of the LaGuardia community for over five years, he is not only familiar with the college's culture of offering quality education, but he also respects and values LaGuardia Community College's commitment to personal and intellectual growth.


    • Yatsen Chan
      Email: ychan@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Yatsen Chan


      Yatsen Chan is a native of Brownsville, Texas, who has spent practically all of his adult life working in South Texas, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and New York as an ESL/EFL teacher and as a translator from Chinese to English and from Spanish to Chinese for Hong Kong-based film publications. He has taught at public schools in Texas, at Feng Chia University in Taiwan, at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, and at LaGuardia Community College. While a university instructor in Taiwan back in the late seventies, he co-authored, with Peter J. Gallery, an EFL text called The Way We Say It. He has also co-authored, with the Taiwanese writer Li Pu-er, a Chinese-language short story called "Those Cosmopolitan Liberals and the White Man's Burden."


    • Yong Jun Choi
      Email: ychoi@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Yong Jun Choi


      YongJun Choi received his M.A. in comparative linguistics of the Korean and Japanese languages from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He spent 2001-2011 living in Japan, teaching the Korean language at private language schools in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo. He is currently an adjunct Korean/Japanese language instructor at LaGuardia Community College, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Korea Society and New York University, and works at Columbia University as a teaching associate. He has taught a wide range of Korean/Japanese levels, ranging from beginner to early-advanced.


    • Douglas Condon
      Email: dcondon@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Douglas Condon


      Bio coming soon.


    • Winfield Cooper
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      Winfield Cooper


      Bio coming soon.


    • Josephine Curatolo
      Email: jcuratolo@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Josephine Curatolo


      Bio coming soon.


    • Izzy De Moya
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      Izzy De Moya


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    • Susan Dorrington
      Email: sdorrington@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Susan Dorrington


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    • Jennifer DuJat
      Email: jdujat@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Jennifer DuJat


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    • Gregory Dunn
      Email: gdunn@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Gregory Dunnn


      Bio coming soon.


    • Porsha Hope Esterene
      Email: pesterene@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Porsha Hope Esterene


      Bio coming soon.


    • Lamees A. Fadl
      Email: lfadl@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 347-608-8966 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Lamees A. Fadl


      Lamees got the MA from Cairo University in 2008 from Department of English Language and Literature in Comparative Literature. She started her academic career in 2003. She worked with college level students in Egypt. She taught language and literature courses at The Faculty of Arts, Banha University, Egypt. In New York, she worked as a script writer for a well known Arabic weekly Show which is directed to the Arab American in the US & Canada Now she is teaching Arabic language and literature at both Laguardia CC and John Jay College."


    • Darcy Faro
      Email: dfaro@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Darcy Faro


      Bio coming soon.


    • Kimberly Farrar
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      Kimberly Farrar


      Kimberly Farrar has a BA in Poetry from the University of Arizona and an MA in TESOL from Hunter College. She taught ESL to high school students for many years in the New York City public schools. She also taught ESL to international music students at The Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music and BMCC. She has been an adjunct in the Communication Skills department at LaGuardia since 2007. She is a published poet and essayist.


    • Christine Fernandez
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      Christine Fernandez


      Bio coming soon.


    • Robert Flaucher
      Email: rflaucher@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Robert Flaucher


      Robert Flaucher has been an adjunct lecturer at LaGuardia for over 4 years. He also teaches at Montclair State University and Queens College. He was born deaf to a hearing family and learned ASL as his first language at the Fremont California School for the Deaf in the San Francisco Bay Area. He truly appreciates nature, diverse cultures, food, and travel. He loves New York City and has been a resident for 12 years. He holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Hunter College and an MBA in Sustainability from Bard College.


    • Kelsey Fox
      Email: kfox@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Kelsey Fox


      Kelsey Fox received her MA in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from New York University and has a BA in English literature with a minor in writing from the University of Central Arkansas. She has been teaching reading, writing, and language through a mix of various internships, volunteer work, and in the classroom since 2009. She currently teaches English to speakers of other languages and particularly enjoys focusing on students' writing and reading skills.


    • Miho Fujimori
      Email: mfujimori@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Miho Fujimori


      Bio coming soon.


    • Richard Furlong
      Email: rfurlong@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Richard Furlong


      Richard Furlong started his teaching career at a private language school in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. After a bit over three years in Turkey, he relocated to Japan, where for the next five years he taught EFL to primary, secondary, and tertiary students at Hiroshima University and affiliated elementary and junior high schools. While in Japan, he was the Hiroshima area coordinator of English Teachers in Japan and a member of the editorial board for its publications, The ETJ Journal and Snakes and Ladders. This was followed by a brief stint at the British Council in Tunis before joining the CUNY system, first at Hostos Community College, then at LaGuardia.

      Furlong began his university education as a nuclear engineering major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he transferred to City College to complete a BA in English literature. He was awarded an MA from the University of Leicester (UK), where he specialized in second language acquisition. Beside LaGuardia, Mr. Furlong also teaches at BMCC and Pace University.


    • Adela Virginia Gonzalez
      Email: adgonzalez@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Adela Virginia Gonzalez


      Bio coming soon.


    • Kim Melissa Greenaway
      Email: mgreenaway@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Kim Melissa Greenaway


      Bio coming soon.


    • Rui Huang
      Email: rhuang@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Rui Huang


      Rui Huang is an graduate student in Computational Linguistics at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She earned her undergraduate degree from Beijing International Studies University in Korean Studies, with a minor in Jurisprudence. Her research interests are language acquisition and machine learning in part of speech tagging.


    • Darlene Intlekofer
      Email: dintlekofer@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Darlene Intlekofer


      Darlene Intlekofer has been an adjunct instructor in the Education and Language Acquisition Department at LaGuardia Community College since Fall 2009. She mainly teaches Intro to Language (ELL 101), but has also taught Intro to Bilingualism (ELN 101) and various academic ESL writing courses, and is certified in the Cuny Assessment Test for Writing (CATW). Previous teaching experience includes Spanish language courses in the Baltimore area to a wide range of age groups within diverse instructional settings, and adult ESL conversational and grammar courses in Philadelphia. Darlene earned a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Goucher College, MD, and a Master of Science in Education with a specialization in TESOL from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a doctoral candidate in linguistics at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research interests are in phonetics, laboratory phonology, and Austronesian languages, particularly Tagalog. For more information
      visit her website.


    • Eunji Kim
      Email: eukim@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Eunji Kim


      Eunji Kim earned the BA degree in Foreign Language and Literature from the University of Delaware with a Three-Language Concentration. Upon earning the degreem, she gained experience working as a multilingual translator at an international corporation for a number of years. After earning the MA degree in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University, Eunji taught English and foreign languages at different institutions. Also, she partook in diverse projects ranging from developing language curriculum and assessment to coordinating academic or cultural events. At LaGuardia Community College, she is currently instructing an Elementary Korean course. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, language assessment, and language learning curriculum development.


    • Carmen King
      Email: OrganicASL@gmail.com | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Carmen King


      Bio coming soon.


    • Sara Hamada
      Email: shamada@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Sara Hamada


      Bio coming soon.


    • David Levin
      Email: dlevin@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      David Levin


      David Levin has been a City and State certified ESL teacher for the New York City Board of Education for 30 years. His licenses are in both elementary and secondary ESL. He has taught ESL from the kindergarten level through twelfth grade. He received his BA and MS degrees from Queens College, an MA in ESL from Adelphi University, and a doctorate from St. John's University. His specialty in the high schools is preparation of ESL students for the New York State Regents English Examination. At St. John's University, where he has taught since 1988, his expertise is teaching English to business majors. At LaGuardia, where he has been an adjunct since 1989, he has taught all ESL levels and presently specializes in preparing the ESL students for the ACT Examination..


    • Irma Lynch-Patterson
      Email: ilynch-patterson@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Irma Lynch-Patterson


      Bio coming soon.


    • Martha Martinez
      Email: martham@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Martha Martinez


      Bio coming soon.


    • Lisset Martinez Herryman
      Email: lmartinez@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Lisset Martinez Herryman


      Lisset Martínez Herryman holds a BA from the University of Havana and an MA from St. John's University. She is a Spanish teacher, art historian, and independent curator. She has written and lectured on Cuban and Latin American art, and curated numerous exhibitions throughout Cuba and the United States. She organizes the program "Spanish Through the Arts" for En Nueva York, a cultural organization that promotes the arts and culture in the city.


    • Andrew McCormick
      Email: amccormick@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Andrew McCormick


      Andrew has been a part-time faculty member at LaGuardia since 2007, where he has taught in the English and ELA Departments. In ELA, which he joined in 2012, he has instructed ESA 099 (Basic Writing for Non-Native Speakers) and, more recently, ELL 101 (Intro to Language). He has also taught linguistics to master’s level TESOL students in the School of Education at City College, CUNY. Andrew is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. program in linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation (expected completion: 2021) is investigating the invariant semantic contribution of the word how. Andrew has an M.Phil in linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center, an M.A. in English from Queens College, CUNY, and an M.S. in TESOL from City College, CUNY. His B.A. in English is from Adelphi University.


    • Beth Milner
      Email: emilner@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Beth Milner


      Bio coming soon.


    • Annette Miller
      Email: anmiller@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Annette Miller


      Bio coming soon.


    • Hiroko Miyashita
      Email: hmiyashita@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Hiroko Miyashita


      Hiroko Miyashita received her MA in Liberal Studies from School for Graduate Studies, Empire State College, The State University of New York, BA in Linguistics from Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, and holds a certificate for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language from Waseda University. She is currently an adjunct Japanese Language Instructor at LaGuardia Community College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and The New School. Her research interests are second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. In addition, she has a strong interest in studying “Japanese pop culture and Japanese language”. She has a deep appreciation of Japanese traditional culture as well. She has learned shodo (Japanese calligraphy), playing koto (Japanese harp) and shamisen (Japanese banjo) for over ten years since she was three years old.


    • Angela Mora
      Email: amora@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Angela Mora


      Bio coming soon.


    • Michael Natriello
      Email: mnatriello@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Michael Natriello


      Bio coming soon.


    • Lewis Ni
      Email: lni@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Lewis Ni


      Lewis Ni has been teaching academic ESL at LaGuardia since 1990. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from the Foreign Language Institute in Luyang, China and a Certificate of ESL Service from Baruch College, CUNY. He also has a Bilingual Certificate of English and Chinese for the New York City Public Schools. Before coming here, he was an English instructor at Shanghai University, China, where he taught a full range of EFL courses and provided complete interpreting and translating services to visiting US delegations. He worked as an interpreter for the Sino-American Conference on Education, CUNY, in 1995 and 2004. His publications include Meiguo Fengqing Lu, which is a Chinese translation of the book Miscellaneous Scenes of America, and articles in Chinese periodicals based on Voice of America broadcasts.


    • Ekaterine Petrakos
      Email: epetrakos@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Ekaterine Petrakos


      Bio coming soon.


    • Peter Purchia
      Email: ppurchia@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Peter Purchia


      Peter Purchia holds a BA from Fordham University and an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a long-time adjunct in ESL, teaching writing, mostly at the ESL098 and ESL099 levels. He also has some experience teaching the Humanities Pair. His strong interests are travel and the arts, and he is also active as a photographer for a stock photo agency.


    • Jeremy Rafal
      Email: jrafal@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Jeremy Rafal


      Bio coming soon.


    • Amalia Rechtman
      Email: arechtman@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Amalia Rechtman


      Bio coming soon.


    • Silvia Reyes
      Email: silviare@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Silvia Reyes


      Bio coming soon.


    • Alvaro Fernando Rodrigues-da-Cunha
      Email: arodrigues-da-cunha@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Alvaro Fernando Rodrigues-da-Cunha


      Alvaro Fernando Rodrigues-da-Cunha is a linguist who works with description of languages. His research encompasses phonetics and phonology, morphological idiosyncrasies, and all basic syntactical structures as well as aspects of cultural anthropology. He has developed and published his own theory on the intersection of narratives. Dr. Rodrigues-da-Cunha described the Tenetehara indigenous language from the Amazon rainforest; the Kalon gypsy language (from the basket making clan); and, also, Hakitia, a Moroccan-Jewish language from the areas of Brazil and Venezuela.


    • Esther Rosa
      Email: erosa@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Esther Rosa


      Esther Rosa was born in Washington Heights but was raised in South Bronx. She graduated as an Educational Opportunity alumni from SUNY Binghamton University with a BA in History and BS in Human Development. Afterward, she pursued a Masters in Social Work from CUNY Hunter College and is a certified License Social Worker. Prior to working at LaGuardia Community College, Esther worked in various nonprofit organizations in youth development, counseling, college readiness, and overall as an innovative supporter of student success and empowerment. Esther currently serves as the ASAP Senior Academic Advisor at LaGuardia Community College and works as a part-time instructor for the Reading Department teaching CSE 110: Literacy and Propaganda or CSE 120: Reading the Biography. Esther strongly believes that “education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.


    • Mary Teresa Ryan
      Email: mryan@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Mary Teresa Ryan


      Bio coming soon.


    • Fritzy Sannon-Brown
      Email: fsannon-brown@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Fritzy Sannon-Brown


      Fritzy Sannon-Brown, life-long educator, joined the Communications Skills Department at Laguardia Community College in Spring of 2000. She holds an undergraduate degree in Early Childhood Education from York College, CUNY, a Masters in Special Education from Adelphi University and a post-master*s certificate in School administration & supervision from Queens College, CUNY. Her 20 plus years of experience working in public and private institutions, have enabled her to expand her knowledge in various pedagogical models to increase student outcomes. In addition to her many years at Laguardia, Fritzy has taught graduate courses in Special Education and Educational Foundations to students in teacher preparation programs and has over 13 years experience as an administrator in the public schools. Lastly, her experiences teaching students from birth through college including students with Autism and behavioral challenges have allowed Fritzy to further continue her studies, conducting research in Educational Leadership as a doctoral candidate.


    • Martha Siegel
      Email: msiegel@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Martha Siegel


      Martha Siegel has been an adjunct lecturer at LGCC since 1999. She has an MSW from Columbia University and an MA in TESOL from Hunter College. She is the co-author, with Maxine Berger, of the book, New Land, New Language, an ESL workbook based on true immigrant stories of past residents of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, published by New Readers Press in 2006. Prior to teaching ESL, she worked as a psychiatric social worker, specializing in children and families. Later, she had her own business of representing fabric designers to the fashion and home furnishings trade. She has taught in several departments at LGCC: TELC, English, Communication Skills, and currently in ELA, and has taught courses in many ESL skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary.) She loves working with the diverse student body of LAGCC.


    • Eugene Slepov
      Email: eslepov@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Eugene Slepov


      Bio coming soon.


    • Sandra Margarita Stern
      Email: sstern@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Sandra Margarita Stern


      Dr. Sandra Stern is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia Community College. She holds a Ph.D. and M. Phil. in Spanish Literatures and Languages from the CUNY Graduate Center, an MA Spanish, from CUNY City College and a BSW from Temple University. She teaches courses in Spanish acquisition, urban studies, bilingual education and heritage language. Her areas of interest are the Puerto Rican short story and novel, minority languages and cultures in the Caribbean, English-language Latino writers in the U.S.A. and mural art. She is also the founder and editor of a small book publishing company.


    • Victoria Somogyi
      Email: vsomogyih@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Victoria Somogyi


      Bio coming soon.


    • Paula Teitelbaum
      Email: pteitelbaum@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Paula Teitelbaum


      Paula Teitelbaum holds a BA in Spanish and Russian from SUNY at Buffalo and an MA in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University. She first taught ESL at TELC 1980-1991. She also taught ESL and Spanish as a foreign language as well as a heritage language for the NYC DOE at the secondary level. She returned to LaGuardia to teach ESL in the ELA department in 2010. Paula’s other languages are Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew. In addition to teaching ESL she is also well known as a Yiddish teacher in New York City and beyond.


    • Nancy Torres-Nolasco
      Email: ntorres-nolasco@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Nancy Torres-Nolasco


      Bio coming soon.


    • Kyoko Toyama
      Email: kyokot@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Kyoko Toyama


      Kyoko M. Toyama, a native of Tokyo, Japan, teaches all levels of Japanese in the ELA Department. She is also a Professor in the department of Counseling at LaGuardia and has been teaching and counseling students in the College Discovery program and serving as supervisor for graduate students in counseling for more than twenty years. She has conducted training workshops in the areas of cross-cultural counseling and her research interests are college students' retention and persistence and women’s psychological development, particularly related to Asian/Asian American women. She has an MA and MEd from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a PhD from New York University, both in Counseling Psychology. Kyoko is s former Board member of Asian American Research Institute of CUNY. When not working, she is a drummer and an instructor of taiko (Japanese drum).


    • Dejan Trickovic
      Email: dtrickovic@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Dejan Trickovic


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    • George Tsouris
      Email: georgetsouri@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      George Tsouris


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    • Lisa Vogl
      Email: lvogl@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Lisa Vogl


      Bio coming soon.


    • Nasimun Nahar Wahed
      Email: nwahed@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Nasimun Nahar Wahed


      Bio coming soon.


    • Nora Yood
      Email: nyood@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Nora Yood


      NBA from Queens College. MA from History Queens College. MS in TESOL from Hunter College. Nora is teaching in the ELA Department at LaGuardia Community College since 2009. She has been working as an administrator for various New York State Agencies and taught high school English and Social Studies in NYC.


    • Rong Zhang
      Email: rzhang@lagcc.cuny.edu | Tel: 718-482-5640 | Room: B-234 | Read more...

      Rong Zhang


      Bio coming soon.


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