Jessica has 6 years of experience as an educator. She has taught French, Spanish, and English to students of many backgrounds and ages. Recently, she spent three years teaching ESL on Jeju Island in South Korea. She has a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and a minor in French from the University of New Mexico. She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Biochemistry and focusing on language acquisition on a molecular level.

Chris has 5 years of experience as a language teacher. He is also an award-winning translator and has used his language skills working on cross-cultural projects in Italy, Ukraine, Mongolia, and many other countries in Asia and the former Soviet Union.  He has a Master's degree in Linguistics from the University of New Mexico, where he studied language pedagogy, language typology and cognitive linguistics.

Grace has lived in Canada for more than 10 years. She has a bachelor’s degree in Nutrition from McGill University. She lives in Montreal, a bilingual city, where she works as a R&D and regulatory affair specialist in a food company.  While raising her two kids to be trilingual in English, French and Chinese, she has developed and tested many ideas about child language acquisition. Currently she is teaching Chinese and helping Chinese students learn English better through Beyond Languages.