Lubie G. Alatriste is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the Department of English, NYCCT and current director of Multilingual Writing and  ESOL Writing and Speaking Lab. She has taught, researched and published on the topics of college composition, second language writing, College ESL, linguistics and genre based instruction and genre tranfer. Her latest publications are: Second Language Writing in Transitional Spaces (co-authored with Grundleger Crosby), University of Michigan Press (2020); Language Research in Multilingual Settings, Palgrave Macmillan (2020). Dr. Alatriste is current Editor-in-Chief of NYS TESOL and a past ESL DC co-chair.

Kamal Belmihoub is a lecturer and ELL Director in the English Department at Baruch College. He specializes in applied linguistics, writing studies, world Englishes, and sociolinguistics. 

Susan DiRaimo is a lecturer  in the English Department at Lehman College and City College. She specializes in applied linguistics, and basic and creative writing .She has a Master’s Degree from The National Autonomous University of Mexico City UNAM in Literature and Linguistics..She did Doctoral Work at the CUNY Graduate Center in the Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Department and the Linguistics Department. Her Doctoral Thesis is a Linguistic Analysis of Pablo Neruda’s Political and Esoteric Poetry. She is fluent in Spanish and French and has studied German (at CELE Center For Foreign Languages in Mexico City) and Chinese.

Monica Filimon is an Associate Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College. She has been directing the ESL Program since January 2020 and served as co-director for the Program between 2017 and 2020. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University and has been teaching ESL, Composition, and LIterature at KBCC since 2011.

Rebekah Johnson is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and English as a Second Language in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia Community College. She has been co-directing the Academic ESL Program at LAGCC since 2016. Dr. Johnson received her MA in TESOL, EdM in Applied Linguistics, and EdD in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University.  She has been teaching ESL composition, linguists and education courses at LAGCC since 2010. Dr. Johnson’s research interests include sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and educational technology.

Hamid Kherief coordinates the ESL credit program and has also been the director of CLIP since 2020 at York College. Prior to that date, Hamid taught at LaGuardia Community College in TELC as well as a full time instructor in the ESL credit program. In 1994, Hamid moved to York College for a full time position in credit ESL. Hamid’s research interests are language policy and language planning, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics.

Keming Liu, Professor of Linguistics and Literature @ Medgar Evers College- Keming Liu serves as the ESL Coordinator at Medgar Evers College. She received her doctoral degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in Applied Linguistics, and an MA in Technology in Education. She received her first MA in TESOL at Hunter College, CUNY. She has published widely and her current poetry in translation is coming out this year. She teaches linguistics, literature, and professional writing courses at MEC. 

Rebecca Minnich is an adjunct Assistant Professor in English and has been serving as ESL Program Coordinator at City College since November 2012. It is a part-time position. Rebecca Minnich received a TESOL certification from Columbia University in 2003, and taught ESL through the English Language Institute at NYU from 2008 to 2019. She has an MFA in creative writing from The City College of New York, where she currently teaches in writing courses in the English Department. In addition, she teaches both upper-division undergraduate writing and ESL at City Tech in Brooklyn.

Sloane von Wertz, Doctoral Lecturer, College of Staten Island, Department of English: Sloane von Wertz serves as the ESL coordinator at the College of Staten and has served in this position permanently since 2016. After teaching at York College for many years in the Department of English as well as in CLIP at CSI, Sloane worked to earn her Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics at The Graduate Center, CUNY.  Currently, in addition to teaching, she researches the impact of musicality on second language learning, especially English speakers who are learning a tone language.

Cindy Wishengrad is an adjunct lecturer in the English and SEEK Departments at Hunter College. She also coordinates Hunter’s ESL Program, which includes courses, the MATESOL tutoring program, and free winter and summer break workshops. She has written an article for IDIOM journal, and a short novel for beginner English language learners, published by CUNY–Jesse’s Story–used by some of CUNY’s community outreach programs.

Weier Ye is an Associate Professor of English as a Second Language in the English Department at Queensborough Community College. After obtaining an MA in TESOL at Long Island University, he earned his Ph.D. in Composition & TESOL at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He teaches ESL classes at different levels ranging from low-intermediate to high-advanced fluency. His research interests include cohesion and coherence in text linguistics, second language writing, contrastive rhetoric, and modern Chinese rhetorical values.