John Robertson, M.A. in TESOL, Biola University. Mr. Robertson has over 40 years of classroom teaching experience, including 15 years internationally - in Mexico, Egypt, Indonesia, and Malaysia. During his years in K-12 instruction, he also wrote curriculum for his schools and district as well as for the California State Department of Education and the National Center for History in the Schools. In addition, Mr. Robertson has evaluated history textbooks for the California State Department of Education. Since 2007, Mr.

Randall Rightmire has taught Linguistics, ESL, and college writing for over 30 years. His areas of interest include teaching writing and grammar, training international teaching assistants, and teaching pronunciation. He oversees ITA assessment and graduate writing assessment at UCSB EMS and serves on the board of California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL). In his spare time, he enjoys blogging about grammar and writing at https://emswriting.wordpress.com/.

Amy Joy graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Spanish Linguistics and a minor in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). She then earned her master's degree in TESOL from Columbia University in New York City. While in New York, she taught adult English language learners from over 50 countries, allowing her to work with students from a wide variety of language backgrounds and levels of English proficiency.

Karyn E. Kessler is an Associate Teaching Professor of Linguistics and Director of the English for Multilingual Students Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She teaches undergraduate courses in the TESOL minor, graduate writing and communication courses for international students across disciplines, and research design seminars through the university’s Honors Program. As a university and program leader, Dr. Kessler collaborates on the design and implementation of academic programs, overseeing curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

I am a Senior Lecturer SOE and Director of the English for Multilingual Students (EMS) Program at UCSB. In the EMS Program, I primarily teach graduate and undergraduate writing courses but also work with international graduate students in courses focused on oral academic English.  In the Linguistics Department, I teach two core courses for our TESOL Minor: an introduction to TESOL and English grammar. I also occasionally teach courses in the Writing Program, most recently an upper division course for international transfer students.

Andrew has taught English for more than 20 years in the United States, as well as in China, Spain, and Mexico. After completing his degree in journalism, he went to cooking school and worked for many years as a food writer. He also holds degrees in teaching English, and theology, imagination, and the arts, and diplomas in fine arts and socially engaged practice in museum studies. Andrew enjoys being a docent at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, making artist’s books, and traveling with his two Scottish terriers.