Director of World Language Programs
Heather is the director of the World Language Program as well as the website manager at ILI, and occasionally she teaches in the Intensive English Program or substitutes in the DOE Free English Program classes. Before joining ILI in 2003, she spent her time between organic gardening and her art studio.
She has taught a Multicultural Arts Program for elementary school children, basic ceramics to differently-abled high school students and feltmaking classes to adults. Currently she expresses her artistic side through feltmaking and textile surface design. Heather holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies for Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is a graduate of the SIT TESOL Certificate Program and trained in multicultural conflict transformation. She has lived and studied Spanish in Guatemala and has traveled in Europe, Central America and Mexico.
Contact: heather@ili.edu, (413) 586-7569 x109