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Elena Jimenez

My name is Elena Jiménez, I was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. I’ve lived in Tampico, Mexico City, and Cancun! I studied Economics for my Bachelor’s Degree in Mexico City and then what brought me to the US was my masters degree in Public Policy,...
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Nikita Patil

Nikita is from Western India and she moved to the United States 10 years ago. She recently graduated from university and is now in Maryland as part of a global rotational program for a Biopharmaceutical company. She has always been fascinated with exploring new...
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Diana Blaszkiewicz

Diana is a DC area native and she works as a real estate lawyer. While sjhe was born in the US, both of here parents are from Poland, and Polish is her first language. In college, Diana spent a semester studying at the Jagiellonian University...
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Bertha Nibigira

Bertha was born in the DRC and partially raised in Tanzanian. She speaks a mixture of Tanzanian and Congelese Swahili. She is looking forward to sharing what she knows with GLN students. It is definitely going to be a learning experience for her as she...
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Samantha Pearson

Samantha believes that learning a language is an empowering choice and experience, and she would like to share this discovery with her students. She graduated from American University with a degree in Psychology and French and since then she has been looking for ways to...
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Chong Shin

Chong grew up in NYC. He has been studying Arabic for more than 15 years, and Pashto for more than 10 years....
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