About Language Magazine
The Journal of Communication & Education in the 21st Century

Features Editor: Steven Donahue
Steven Donahue is a member of The National Press Club, The Society of Professional Journalists, and The National Writer's Union. He has published over 100 articles and numerous self-published books, as well as submitted E-Testimony to the Congressional Web-Based Education Commissioner' report. He has developed sophisticated software programs, some of which provide language training for the U.S. Military in Afghanistan and American K-16 students. He has contributed to the Operation Enduring Freedom Language Task Force (OEFLTF) at the Defense Language Institute and presented before the Director of Central Intelligence's Foreign Language Committee (DCIFLC). His work has been covered in The Chronicle of Higher Education, National Public Radio, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He is a tenured professor at Miami Dade College in Florida. His hobbies include chess and the violin. For more information, visit www.rxnetwriter.com http://faculty.mdc.edu/sdonahue/ and www.writenowabc.net

EdTech Writer: Barry Bakin studied anthropology at Stanford University before earning a Certificate in TESL from UCLA. He first taught ESL in the Los Angeles Unified School District in 1987 and now teaches at the Pacoima Skills Center and in the adult division of the LAUSD where he is a teacher advisor for ESL/Citizenship/Community Based English Tutoring Programs. His primary area of interest is incorporating technology (especially computers) into the ESL curriculum in an integrated manner.

Last Laugh: Richard Lederer
With more than a million of his books in print, Richard Lederer (aka the Wizard of Idiom, Attila the Pun, and Conan the Grammarian) is America’s “Super-duper Blooper Snooper.” Richard’s weekly radio show "A Way With Words," celebrates “that tremendous, stupendous, end-over-endous adventure we call language.”

Advertising Executive: Emma Sutton
Having worked at one of Milan's top fashion houses, Emma decided to use her fluent Italian in toursim and joined British Airways flight crew. Over the next few years, she had the opportunity to literally travel the world before she decided that southern California was the place for her.

Far from the rainy skies of London, Emma relishes the outdoor life of her new home. She rides horses and enjoys the Topanga Canyon or Malibu areas in her spare time.

Advertising Executive: Willy Piñon
Guillermo Piñon hails originally from Argentina, where he developed a passion for surfing. When not serving our advertisers and researching language schools around the globe, he will be found catching the waves here in sunny California.

Creative Director: Gregory Van Zuyen is an award-winning art director and idiot savant who believes appliances have souls. While gifted in computers, he has limited language skills and we don't let him answer the phones.

He is said to teach digital publishing at Santa Monica College and LA College International, but we have our doubts as to the authenticity of his actual whereabouts most of the time.
We're pretty sure he is harmless.

Assistant Editor: Christine Tsai
Christine graduated from UC Irvine with a B.A. in both English and dance and a M.A. in teaching. Like any writer/editor should, she has an insane passion for books and reading. She also loves to travel and recently completed a 3-month internship in Beijing, China, writing and editing for a travel company before joining the staff of Language Magazine.