Becca (she/her) is a Jersey-born pizza enthusiast, a humanistic language educator, a passionate immigrant and LGBTQIA+ advocate, and an overall bookworm. She lives with her partner and beloved dog and cat in South Philly. Becca’s educational background includes two bachelor’s degrees from Brown University (International Relations & East Asian Studies), where she first learned to lesson plan in the cafeteria. After teaching young children on a Fulbright Scholarship in Taitung, Taiwan and teaching Mandarin Chinese at the Northwest School in Seattle, WA, Becca moved back to the east coast to earn her M.S.Ed. in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from Penn’s Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.  

It is Becca’s dream to get to learn from and serve – every day! -- adult learners from immigrant and historically marginalized backgrounds, who come to class rich with life experience, cultural capital, and moxie. As her students grapple with pre-existing understandings of how learning happens, why language matters, what it means to be a student, and how to build a new life, career, and multicultural identity in the US, Becca is humbled to support WELL’s participants via HER areas of expertise – the science of literacy and language acquisition and the art of equitable, culturally-sustaining instructional practices.