She is a lifelong language learner and a restless traveler, based in San Francisco. She has been teaching ESL for three decades, on both coasts of the U.S., and in Japan, Indonesia, Guatemala and Hungary, and has studied eight different languages. She is currently teaching at City College of San Francisco, where she has taught all levels of Credit and Non-Credit ESL at seven different campuses. In 2007, she took her first trip to India, where she led Communicative English workshops to youth from the Dalit/caste-oppressed community. In 2008, she founded a non-profit, Jai Bhim International, and she served as volunteer Creative Director, for 14 years traveling to Kerala one month every year to lead workshops with her India-based team at the school that she started, Lokuttara Leadershp Academy, as well as her special girls’ program, Blossom Projects. She is ordained as a Dhammacharini in The Triratna Buddhist Order and her name means “Gesture of Compassion”.