Emily A. Hellmich (PhD) is Associate Director of the Berkeley Language Center. Dr. Hellmich completed her PhD in Education at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017 and her MA in French Cultural Studies at Columbia University in 2010. Before coming back to Berkeley, she was Assistant Professor of French & Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. Dr. Hellmich’s research focuses on the intersection of globalization, digital technology, and language education, with recent publications in journals such as...
Kimberly Vinall is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Language Center (BLC). Dr. Vinall received her PhD in Education at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015 and her MA in Hispanic Literature at the University of Arizona in 1995. Prior to assuming her current position, Dr. Vinall was a Spanish language program coordinator at the University of Michigan and a tenured faculty of Spanish at De Anza College. Informing her work in the BLC are her almost 20 years of teaching language, culture, and literature; her...