Carla Bamatraf received a BA in History from Tulane University and an MA in Applied Linguistics & ESL from Georgia State University.  After earning her BA, she taught for three years in Yamanashi, Japan on the JET Program and for two years in Yemen before returning to the States. In the US, she taught academic English for more than seven years at English for Internationals in Roswell, Georgia, and as a GTA Instructor in Georgia State University’s Intensive English Program. Most recently, she completed a short-term contract for a corporate business client partnered with UNT’s IELI in Fuzhou, China.