Current Instructors

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  MARY BARKER
  

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  MARK BRADY
  Originally from Wyoming, Mark has been teaching English in the Czech Republic and the United States almost continuously since 1996, except for working three years as a newspaper reporter. He received his B.A. in international studies from the University of Denver and his M.A. in journalism from the University of Colorado. He has taught in both the public schools and at the college level. Mark enjoys the outdoors in all types of weather, as well as music, reading, writing, and spending time with his family.

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  RANDALL DAVIS
  Randall S. Davis, a graduate of Brigham Young University in Spanish Education and a M.A. in TESOL, has taught ESL for the past thirteen years in the U.S. and Japan. In his free time, Randall develops his own personal site, Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab, an online listening lab featuring streaming audio and video technology. Randall enjoys spending time with his wife and kids, roughing it in the outdoors, and doing family history research.

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  AMY DELIS
  Amy Delis graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in English Literature and an MA in TESOL. She has been teaching ESOL since 1998 and has taught adults as well as children in the U.S. and China. She enjoys travelling with her family and has visited 30 countries (and counting!). She speaks Spanish and has a goal to one day speak Mandarin Chinese. Other interests include Tai Chi, singing, playing the piano, oil painting, and reading as many books as she can.

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  LISA FULLER
  Lisa Fuller has 10 years ESL teaching experience. She lived in Switzerland for eight years, where she taught English for five years before moving to Park City. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from San Diego State University and her Master Of Arts in Linguistics from the University of Utah. She is married and has a daughter, who was born in August, 2002. She speaks German at home with her husband, who is from Switzerland. She loves the outdoors and any outdoor sport.

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  DOMINIQUE GARNETT
  

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  KATELYN HADFIELD
  

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  JEREMY HANSEN
  Jeremy was born in Logan, Utah but spent his childhood moving around the US as a Navy brat. He received his BS in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations, and a minor in Anthropology from the University of Utah in 2005. In 2008 he received a Masters degree in Education. After finishing his Masters work he and his wife (Maren Fisher) taught public school English in South Korea.
  
  Besides teaching at the ELI, Jeremy is a volunteer writing coach at the VA hospital. He mentors veterans with post traumatic stress. His stories have also been published through the SLCC Community Writing Center. Jeremy loves music, film & literature, philosophy, and traveling. He is an avid cyclist and bike mechanic, building many of his own bikes and bike touring all over the world. Upon returning from South Korea, He and Maren rode their bikes from Portland OR. to San Diego CA. along the scenic Pacific Coast Highway. He is also a multi-talented musician. Currently he plays in a traveling gypsy band called Rakatanga.
  

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  HEIDI HEALY
  

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  JENIA IVANOVA
  Jenia Ivanova has been working at ELI since 2007, teaching reading, writing, grammar, and content-based ESL classes. She graduated from Sofia University "Clement Ohridski" in Bulgaria, with a joined BA/MA in Education and a Minor in Psychology. After immigrating to the United States, she studied at the University of Utah and obtained a MA in Linguistics. She has more than twenty five years teaching experience in the United States and Bulgaria.
  She enjoys reading books, outdoor activities and sports such as hiking, running, and swimming, learning new languages, traveling, listening to music, and dancing. Her favorite thing to do, however, is spending time with her family and playing with her German shepherd dog and her two cats.

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  SARA JORDAN
  Sara has lived, worked, and/or traveled in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South America, and Africa. She teaches travel writing locally and is currently writing a travel series for a local magazine. In 2004, Sara's travel piece won first place in a national writing contest.

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  JASON MOWER
  Jason E Mower, a Utah native, received both his BA in general theoretical linguistics and a MA in applied linguistics with and emphasis in second language acquisition and TESOL certification from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Utah. Jason has taught in ESP, EAP, and IEP programs at the University of Incheon in South Korea and at the University of Utah, Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University. Jason is bilingual in English and Korean, and he has also studied Spanish, French, and Japanese over the years.
  
  In his free time, Jason loves spending time with family and friends and playing all kinds of games with them. He also enjoys playing tennis, bowling, table tennis, billiards, cooking, traveling, reading, and listening to music and watching foreign-language television and films in the languages that he knows and studied.

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  Monica Pack
  

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  James Powell
  

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  ANITA PRABHAKAR
  

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  EMILY WHITE
  

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  RUSSELL WILSON
  Rus graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor's Degree in Italian (1997) and an M.A. in TESOL (2001). After teaching ESL at BYU in Provo for a number of years, he gained more experience in the field teaching for three years at BYU-Hawaii. He has also taught ESL and Italian in other locations. Some of his areas of interest in the field of ESL include content-based courses, specifically science and drama, as well as technology in the classroom.
  
  Outside the realm of ESL, Rus has worked at two zoos and a children's museum. Having viewed the living world with endless fascination since early childhood, Rus has bred, raised, and trained a variety of animals from fish to frogs to sugar gliders. He has published a number of articles on the aquarium hobby. He and his wife Kelly, hosts a weekly aquarium podcast, and he also has a YouTube channel about keeping pets. On a completely different note, he is a founding and current member of Maxed-Out Puppetry. He enjoys finding ways of bringing elements from his hobbies into his work in pedagogically sound ways. Two of his favorite activities at home are playing games and reading aloud, complete with character voices, with his wife and four children.
  

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  MICHAEL ZIEGENFUSS