Susannah Bien-Gund is an experienced educator, facilitator, and teacher trainer who has taught English, Arabic, and French to learners ranging from primary school-aged children to adults in diverse contexts around the world. She currently serves as the Multilingual Specialist at the Haverford College Writing Center and teaches World Language Teaching Methods coursework at Penn’s Graduate School of Education, in addition to leading a program based in Morocco through Bank Street College of Education.
Recent in-person and virtual training and facilitation roles have brought Susannah to Guyana, Tunisia as an English Language Specialist working with Libyan teacher trainers, and countries throughout East and Southeast Asia as an English Language Fellow based in Kunming, China through the US Department of State. Susannah honed many of the skills she brings to her teacher education and training work as manager of the Adult Education Program at the Arab American Association of New York and while researching multilingualism and mother tongues in Morocco as a Fulbright grantee.