Where Are They Now?
The people featured on this page are graduates of the English B.A., English M.A., and M.A. TESOL programs at CSUEB. Are you also a graduate of one of these programs? If so, we'd like to hear from you and feature you on this page, too. If you'd like to be added to this page, please send a picture of yourself and a brief statement about what you’re doing now to Sarah Nielsen at sarah.nielsen@csueasbay.edu.
Melanie Fernandez
Melanie Fernandez, MA TESOL 2008, began a tenure-track position at Ohlone College in fall 2012.
Melissa Ordonez
Melissa Ordonez, MA TESOL 2012, is teaching at Maybeck High School in Berkeley.
Kristine Massey
Kristine Massey, BA 2004, MA 2007, taught at Hayward High School for six years and at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey, for two years. She is now working on her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas at Austin with an emphasis in Cultural Studies in Education.
Kinda Al Rifai
Kinda Al Rifai, MA TESOL 2011, is currently a PhD student in applied linguistics at UCLA.
Eric Neuenfeldt
Eric Neuenfeldt, BA 2007 and MA 2009, won the 2010 Iron Horse Literary Review Single-Author Contest for his collection of short stories, Fall Ends Tomorrow, and is currently the associate editor of Cimarron Review.
Yuri Nagasawa
Yuri Nagasawa, MA TESOL 2007, is an ESL instructor and the Pre-matriculate Coordinator at the American Language Program at Cal State East Bay.
Jarinthorn Phaisarnsitthikarn
Jarinthorn Phaisarnsitthikarn, MA TESOL 2007, has worked as an English lecturer at Bangkok’s Kasetsart University. In 2009-2010, she was selected as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, spending a year teaching Thai at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She is currently preparing applications for Ph.D. programs.
