Alumni

MLC alumni work in positions as diverse as conversational AI, user experience research, healthcare communication, higher education, nonprofit management, natural language processing, security & intelligence, language strategy, instructional design and more.

Class of 2022

Victoria Becker
• Current Position: Associate, Orr Group
• Related Field(s): nonprofit management, fundraising & development

Lavon Davis
• Current Position: PhD student, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Related Field(s): discourse analysis, examining Black professionals’ identity construction in higher education roles

John Dudley
• Current Position: Senior Intelligence Analyst, Blue Halo
• Related Field(s): defense & security, natural language processing, Arabic and Somali linguistics

Kayla Garrett
• Current Position: Marketing & Communications Associate, Centene Corporation
• Related Field(s): discourse analysis; diversity, equity & inclusion, communications, discourse analysis

Aine McAlinden
• Current Position: Dialogue Designer, PolyAI
• Related Field(s): conversation design, user experience

Rachel Lorch
• Current Position: Events & Communications Associate, InnovateEDU
• Related Field(s): K-12 education, diversity, equity and accessibility, discourse analysis

Mario Moreno
• Current Position: Virtual Assistance Dialogue Writer, MotherTongue
• Related Field(s): conversation design, user experience, large language modelling, natural language processing

Marcus Robinson
• Current Position: Instructional Designer, Apple
• Related Field(s): discourse analysis, identity construction, inclusive language

Emily Schluper
• Current Position: Outreach Associate, Capstone
• Related Field(s): event management, language in the corporate workplace

Angelique Marie Southern
• Current Position: English Language Teacher, China
• Related Field(s): EFL, discourse analysis, creative writing, communication

Parker Strubhar
• Current Position: Certification Specialist, Relativity
• Related Field(s): media production

Class of 2021

Nicole Abou Samra
• Current Position: Researcher, Strategy & Insights, Insagic
• Related Field(s): Discourse analysis, health communication

Peri Beckerman
• Current Position: Membership Assistant, American Association of Colleges of Nursing
• Related Field(s): Museum studies, discourse analysis

Alexandra Chugunova Frazier
• Current Position: Senior Communications Associate, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
• Related Field(s): Multimedia design, communications

Emily Fisher
• Current Position: Analyst, Listening & Linguistics, inVibe Labs
• Related Field(s): Digital discourse analysis

Michaela Fox
• Current Position: English Language Teacher, City of Alexandria Public Schools
• Related Field(s): Education, intercultural communication

Alix Kraminitz
• Current Position: Staff Interpreter (ASL) & Alternate Program Manager, Applied Development LLC
• Related Field(s): Discourse analysis, Narrative analysis, American Sign Language

Valentina Michelotti
• Current Position: ESOL Coordinator, New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
• Related Field(s): Second language acquisition & multilingualism, language testing & assessment, critical language teaching and learning

Marcus Robinson II
• Current Position: Instructional Designer, Apple
• Related Field(s): Instructional design, Content writing, Document design

Class of 2020

Jordana Bickel
• Current Position: Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Czech Republic
• Related Field(s): Museum studies, discourse analysis

Sara Grzywacz
• Current Position: Assistant Director of Campus Recreation, Georgetown University
• Related Field(s): Language and health, discourse analysis of yoga, language and politics

Janine Karo
• Current Position: Senior Analyst, Listening & Linguistics, inVibe Labs
• Related Field(s): Mandarin, identity construction in digital media, multimodal discourse analysis

Jungyoon Koh
• Current Position: PhD candidate, Sociolinguistics, Georgetown University Department of Linguistics
• Related Field(s): Computer-mediated discourse analysis, language and identity, multimodal interaction, conversation design

Class of 2019

Tanner Call
• Current Position: Applied Linguist, Language Training & Assessment Unit, FBI, US Department of Justice
• Related Field(s): Language Assessment, Government

Alannah Connolly
• Current Position: Director, maslansky + partners
• Related Field(s): Communication, Consulting

Rebecca Farkas
• Current Position: Digital Media Manager, Planet Word
• Related Field(s) : Technology, Education

Serena Gleklen
• Current Position: Manager, Human Resources, Purple Strategies
• Related Field(s): Communication, Consulting

Shelby Lake
• Current Position: PhD candidate, Media & Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Related Field(s): Communication, Consulting, Digital media

Tripp Maloney
• Current Position: Analyst, Listening & Linguistics, inVibe
• Related Field(s): Health Communication, Technology, Research

Katie Mikalnik
• Current Position: Management and Program Analyst/Editor, U.S. Department of Justice
• Related Field(s): Government, Management

Kenzie Offley
• Current Position: Digital/online Products Assistant, SAGE Publishing
• Related Field(s): Publishing, Technology

Jade Ponciano
• Current Position: Academic Services Coordinator, Elsmere Education
• Related Field(s): Education, Program Coordination

Margaret Rowe
• Current Position: Research Analyst at National Association of Independent Schools
• Related Field(s): Non-profit, Research, Education

Class of 2018

Gabriel Rodriguez
• Current Position: Writer & copyeditor
• Related Field(s): Communication, Consulting

Class of 2017

Cally Alessi
• Current Position: Data Scientist, Nielsen
• Related Field(s): Marketing, Data Science, Qualitative Research

Anne Butler
• Current Position: Qualitative Research Manager, Market & Communications Intelligence, Ascension
• Related Field(s): Health Communications, Program Coordination

Anne Musica
• Current Position: Program Coordinator, MA in Educational Transformation and MA in Learning, Design and Technology, Georgetown University
• Related Field(s): Education, Program Coordination

Julia Rayhill
• Current Position: Spanish Instructor, The Hotchkiss School
• Related Field(s): Education, Teaching

Hannah Sullivan
• Current Position: Language Strategist, maslansky + partners
• Related Field(s): Communication, Consulting

Emily Summers
• Current Position: Behavioral Methodologist, Nielsen
• Related Field(s): Marketing, Data Science

Peter Tontillo
• Current Position: Senior Associate, Hattaway Communications
• Related Field(s): Communication, Consulting

Ping-Hsuan Wang
• Current Position: Private English Teacher
• Related Field(s): Education, Teaching

Class of 2016

Katarina Starcevic
• Current Position: Director of Language Strategy, maslansky + partners
• Related Field(s): Communication, Consulting

Amy-Gabrielle Bartolac
• Current Position: Public Affairs Manager, Wireless Infrastructure Association
• Related Field(s): Management, Technology

Katherine Lucey
• Current Position: Vice President of Language Science and Communication, H.S. Dracones LLC
• Related Field(s): Communication, Consulting

Xiaopei Wu

• Current Position: Machine Learning Engineer, Red Marker
• Related Field(s): Computational linguistics, Natural Language Processing

Class of 2015

Gwynne Mapes
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer, Department of English, University of Bern
• Related Field(s): Education, Research, Teaching

Andrea P. Ferguson
• Current Position: Health Education Specialist, Lorain County General Health District
• Related Field(s): Government, Health Communication & Education

Hanwool Choe
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hong Kong (PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University)
• Related Field(s): Multimodal discourse analysis, family discourse, food vlogging

Matthew Mermel
• Current Position: Data & Quality Assurance Lead, Public Safety Response, Uber
• Related Field(s): Arabic interpretation & translation, US intelligence & defense, trust & safety

Kristine Bundschuh
• Current Position: Senior Institutional Research Analyst, University of New Hampshire (PhD Sociology, University of New Hampshire)
• Related Field(s): Higher education, applied research

Glenn Abastillas
• Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Related Field(s): Data science, Natural Language Processing, Communication, Consulting

Lauren J. Milligan
• Current Position: Statistician, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Related Field(s): Information Technology, Data Science, Research, Medical Sciences

Paige Arthur
• Current Position: Senior Lead, Venture Insights, Redesign Health
• Related Field(s): Communication, Consulting, Healthcare market research, insights & analytics

Jehan Almahmoud
• Current Position: Assistant Professor & Head of International Strategic Partnershps, Princess Noura Bint Abdulrahman University (PhD Linguistics Georgetown University)
• Related Field(s): Higher Education