Joan Chamberlin has an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) at Iowa State University since 2006. Prior to that, in her nearly 30 years of ESL, English for Academic Purposes, and teacher training, she was a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Gdansk in Poland and an English Teaching Fellow, also in Poland. She began teaching English as a Foreign Language as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana in the l980s.