Danielle Currier     

Danielle Currier holds an M.F.A. in Design & Technology from Parsons, The New School for Design. She has worked as an educator and designer in the Boston area and New York City for over 20 years. Danielle has received numerous grants and fellowships, and has spoken at industry events from Nashville to Chicago. She is co-author of the popular book, No Plastic Sleeves: Portfolio and Promotions Guide for Photographers & Designers, which is now in its 2nd edition. Danielle’s current scholarly work focuses on information design and addressing issues that affect women on both a global and national scale.  Her client work includes web design and brand identity. She also enjoys a bit of coding! 

Visit her website @ www.dcurrier.com

 

   Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Fincke     

Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Fincke graduated from Kenyon College with a Bachelor’s degree in German Area Studies. She taught Outdoor Environmental Education in Michigan, and later moved to Philadelphia where she studied modern standard Arabic and did full-time community service as a City Year Corps member. In 2002, she moved to Egypt, and taught at the American University in Cairo, where she received her Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in 2004.

Beth has been teaching English as a Second Language at CELOP since 2005. Her focus as a teacher is to enable her students to develop the tools they need to reach their highest potential in an English-speaking environment. She believes that students learn most when they are engaged in interactive projects, which give them the opportunity to draw on their various experiences, and which require them to negotiate with each other and interact authentically. She challenges her students to engage with different communities in positive ways so that they have deep, meaningful, and unique experiences during their time in Boston.

Beth is conversant in German and Egyptian Arabic and has a basic understanding of Spanish. She enjoys practicing kundalini yoga and meditation, biking, organic gardening, dancing and cooking.

   Stephanie Ngom

Stephanie Ngom is originally from Whitefish, Montana. She studied at the University of Montana for her undergraduate degree in French and Teaching ESL. The year after graduation she lived in Senegal, West Africa where she taught ESL at the University of Saint-Louis, Gaston-Berger. She then went to graduate school in Champaign-Urbana at the University of Illinois where she earned two master’s degrees: one in Teaching ESL and the other in African Studies. Stephanie is fluent in French and Wolof (the 1st national language in Senegal) and she has studied Spanish and Arabic.

Stephanie then moved to Bellingham, Washington with her family. She took some time off to raise her two daughters and also worked in the real estate business as an office manager for 3 years. Stephanie and her family moved to Senegal again for a year in 2008. She taught ESL to graduate students at the University of Saint-Louis, Gaston-Berger. Upon return, she moved to Boston where her husband became a professor at Boston University.

Stephanie worked in ESL programs in public schools in Boston and Brookline in 2009 and then began teaching at CELOP in 2010. She has been working with other teachers at CELOP on almost every concentration and level that CELOP has to offer. She has been working on project-based learning in the classroom with projects such as “The Interview Project”. She also teaches the iBT TOEFL class and has been helping students prepare for this challenging, yet crucial exam.

In her free time, Stephanie enjoys the outdoors with her family. They love to go bike riding, running, hiking, rollerblading, ice-skating, sledding, etc. She also loves to read books and do photography.

Robert Russo     

My name is Rob Russo and I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at Nichols College in Dudley, MA. I am a self-taught avid user of Photoshop and many other Adobe apps. I teach classes ranging from a freshman introduction to digital applications course to an upper level visual communications course. I also run our Visual Media Studio on campus where we have a full soundstage, recording booth, and editing suites. I have a passion for creativity, differentiation, and experiential learning and pass this along via my assignments.   

Steve Watson
Steven is a Sr. Education Customer Success Manager with Adobe Systems.  Steven has been with Adobe for over 7 years, connecting higher education consortium-system institutions from all over North America with software deployment and faculty enablement resources.  His passion is to partner with institutions in creating a digital literacy atmosphere on campus, thereby giving students ways to learn in a visually engaging way and to acquire digital tools to help them in their career path.