Meet Our Team

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Daniela Silva

Daniela Silva the President is a third year Ph.D. student in the Culture, Literacy and Language program at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She earned her M.A. degree in TESL and Spanish at the University of Mississippi. She was also a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at the University of Miami where she taught Portuguese.

President

Amanda Swearingen

Amanda is a second year graduate student in the MA-TESL program, and spent the last decade teaching EFL in Korea and South America. She holds a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. Her areas of interest are in teacher education, second language literacy, therapy animals in second language acquisition, and adult EFL education.

Vice President

Marie-Louise Koelzer

Marie is a second year graduate student in the MA – TESL program at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She holds a B.I.S. in EC-6 Generalist from the University of Texas at El Paso. She hopes to work with ESL students at the secondary and post-secondary educational levels.

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