Penn Language Center

Penn Language Center is enriched by:

• Christina Frei - Academic Director
• Betsy Jane Kells - Technology Director    
• Lada Vassilieva - Administrative Director
• Thi Vuong Poerner - Administrative Coordinator

• Yohannes Hailu - Amharic
• Monda Mwaya - Chichewa
  
• Chika Nwadiora - Igbo 
• Travis Aldous - Malagasy
• Ali B. Ali-Dinar - Sudanese Arabic
  
• Elaine Mshomba - Swahili
• Ermias Zemichael - Tigrinya
• Mbacke Thioune - Wolof
• Yiwola Awoyale - Yoruba
• Audrey Mbeje - Zulu and Director of African Languages

American Sign Language

• Joshua Beckman
• Melissa Draganac-Hawk
• Melanie Drolsbaugh 
• Jami N. Fisher, ASL Program Director 
• Kaitlyn Parenti
• Heather Schmerman
  
• Jennifer Strunk

East and Southeast Asian Languages

• Ye Tian - Chinese Language Program Director
• Melvin Chih-Jen Lee - Chinese 
• Vicky Aquino - Filipino
• Deo Mar Suasin - Filipino
  
• Tomoko Takami - Japanese Language Program Director
  
• Haewon Cho - Korean Language Program Director
• Ratchaneekorn Uamsiri - Thai
• Grace Wu - Taiwanese
• Hanh Nguyen - Vietnamese

European Languages

• Georgia Nikolaou - Modern Greek
• Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew - Irish Gaelic
• Adrienn Mizsei - Hungarian
• Agnieszka Dziedzic - Polish
• Kseniia Power - Ukrainian
  

Near East Languages

• Azita Hamedani Kamkar- Persian,  Kurdish
  
• Feride Hatiboglu - Turkish Language Program Coordinator
  

South Asian Languages

• Haimanti Banerjee - Bengali
• Raki Desai - Gujarati
  
• Viji Swaminathan - Kannada
• Priya Nambrath - Malayalam
• Milind Ranade - Marathi
• Amrit K. Gahunia - Panjabi
•  Zubairullah Hashimi - Pashto
• Vasu Renganathan - Tamil

Spanish

• Daisy Braverman - Judeo-Spanish
• Geraldine Lebaudy - Business Spanish
• Monserrat Bores Martinez - Medical Spanish

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