Giulia was born and raised in the Dolomite foothills of Italy. After studying for short time at the University of Padua, Giulia pursued a career at the Consortium Institute of Management and Business Analysis (CIMBA), located in Asolo, Italy as executive assistant and program coordinator. While working at CIMBA for 5 years she was able to develop an important understanding and appreciation for different cultures. In 2006 Giulia obtained her Executive Certificate in International Management. It wasthrough all these experiences and contacts that Giulia set out on a personal journey that landed her in Seattle, Washington. Giulia joined the SLA staff in 2008 as Foreign Language Program Coordinator and is currently studying Japanese.

Tyler Lansford, our former Classics Program Director at Seattle Language Academy, has moved to Boulder Colorado. He taught Latin and Greek for eight years at the University of Washington, where he completed his Ph.D. in Classics. He is currently writing a travelers' guide to the Latin inscriptions of Rome for the Johns Hopkins University Press, to be published in 2008. We will all miss him.

Marc Mariani has lived and studied in Rome, where he taught English to Italians and Italian to Americans. He holds Master's degrees in Classical languages (Greek) and in Romance languages (Italian) from the University of Washington. Co-founder of Seattle Language Academy, Marc has been teaching languages since 1986 and is the Executive Director of SLA.

Danjie Yin Coming Soon.

Chris Bliesner Coming Soon.

Amy Dashiell grew up in Arizona and discovered her love of traveling in high school, when she and 300 other students went on a tour of Europe. She moved to Seattle in 2006 and joined Seattle Language Academy in the summer of 2009. She is currently studying Spanish, and hopes to use it in future travels to Central and South America.

Originally from Pennsylvania, Megan McNelis moved to Seattle after receiving a BA in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh. After eight years as a City Code Editor, she returned to school and graduated from Seattle University with a certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Megan spent 2006-2007 as a Literacy*Americorps member, coordinating Seattle Public Library’s ESL Talk Time program. In her spare time, Megan loves to swim and enjoys Seattle’s thriving cinema scene. She has studied seven foreign languages, usually in preparation for her travels throughout Europe, China and Morocco. Megan is SLA’s English Language Program Student Advisor.

Laura Nelson has over 20 years experience teaching French, Italian and English as a Second Language. She holds B.A. in French and English and an M.A. in Italian from Middlebury College. She has also studied in  Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the Università di Firenze in Florence, Italy, the Sorbonne in Paris, France and in 2007 at Seoul National University, Korea. Laura has held various teaching positions in Europe, most  recently in Toulouse and Marseille, France and is currently pursuing the study of the Korean language at SLA and in Korea, both in Seoul and Busan.

James Lyon-Hall originally hails from Kingston, Jamaica, where he spent his first six years. He subsequently moved all over America, falling in love with the Seattle area as a boy prior to moving to Florida for high school and college. He studied Multicultural Philosophy at the University of Florida, acheiving a BA there in 1998, before returning to the Pacific Northwest that he loves.

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