	Joanne Sellen has taught English as a Second Language since 1982. She has a Masters of Arts in TESOL from the University of Michigan. She is presently working toward her Ph.D. in Education at Washington State University. She has taught English as a Second Language in the U.S., Mexico, and Japan, and has done teacher training at Universities in Mexico, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. She is the author of the Journeys Grammar Series.
	Laurel Gilbert-Wilder got her Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Idaho in 2005 and has been teaching at the ALCP since then. Previously, she taught ESL part-time in Boise State University’s community education program and worked as a bilingual (Spanish) consultant for the Idaho Department of Labor. She received a Bachelor’s degree in English from Brigham Young University-Utah, where she also studied Spanish and Russian. While serving as a missionary in Chile during a year and a half break from school, she became fascinated in working with people from different culture and language backgrounds. Currently she is especially interested in inter-cultural communication and has had great experiences designing activities for her ALCP students to participate in with regular University of Idaho classes.
	Tomie Gowdy-Burke was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and composition studies at Washington State University in 2002 before earning a MA with the English graduate program at the UI. Her MA thesis concentrated on composition and applied linguistics and pursued her interests in distributive justice theory and how learning disabilities undermine the writing process. Following two-years of teaching first-year college composition for the UI English Department, she began teaching for the UI American Language and Culture Program. In 2003, she presented “Images Can Be Deceiving: or a Postcolonial Interrogation of the “Other” in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled” at the Fourth International Conference of Studies in Cultural Meaning in Chantilly, France. She has been working on a Ph.D. in Adult Education since 2005. Her research focuses on the role of the educator in the learning experiences of Saudi Arabian students.
	Kate Hellmann holds an M.A. from Iowa State University in TESL/Applied Linguistics with specializations in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Literacy. She is also an alumnus of the University of Idaho where she received degrees in English Literature and Spanish. Kate has taught beginning through advanced ESL at both Iowa State University and Des Moines Area Community College. She has also studied and taught at Universidad del Pais Vasco in Bilbao, Spain. Her research interests lie in teaching ESL through CALL and error gravity research as applied to University Writing Centers, which was the subject of her Master's Thesis. She is originally from North Central Idaho and is married and anxiously awaiting the arrival of her first child! In her spare time, Kate enjoys hiking, biking, rafting and spending time with family and friends.
	A native of Michigan, Barbara Keyes received her B.A. Degree from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. After spending some time in the elementary classroom, she worked with an international organization eventually spending several years in Europe. After returning to the United States, Ms. Keyes obtained her M.A. Degree from Northern Illinois University. A move to multi-cultural Canada eventually led her to Okanagan University College in British Columbia, where she received her TESL Certification. Subsequently, she taught in the ESL department at OUC, as well as Trend College, before moving to Moscow, Idaho where she began teaching in the ALCP program in 2002.
	Mary Ellen was raised in New York, near Manhattan. As an undergraduate, she studied music at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Mary Ellen began teaching English to speakers of other languages in 1981 in Juneau, Alaska. As an Adult Education teacher, she was contracted by the State of Alaska to teach incarcerated Cubans and underemployed Vietnamese immigrants. From there, she continued to teach ESL in unusual settings, such as the hills of Northern Thailand and Guangzhou, China, in the early 1980's. Obtaining Master's degrees in music in 1986, and in TESOL in 1989, Mary Ellen taught ESL at Washington State University during the 1990's and has taught at ALCP since 2001. Once her youngest child graduates from high school (2012), Mary Ellen intends to get back on the road and teach ESL in her mother's native country, Chile.
	Elsie Watson has been teaching in the American Language and Culture Program since 1996. After earning a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a Certificate in Criminology and Corrections from Florida State University, she worked in various jobs, including a stint in the Department of Corrections for the State of Texas. Later she went back to the university to major in English and to complete certification for secondary teaching in both English and history. Completing an M.A. in Literature, she substituted in the public schools, continued to take additional classes, including courses in the TESL program. After three years teaching in the IEI in Lewiston, Idaho, she began teaching at ALCP. With the recommendation from her best friend, she dares to do something every day that frightens her, including riding her bike, rollerblading, standing on her head, engaging students in learning (a two-way street), and opening the newspaper.