John Turnbull’s position as academic composition instructor at LCC International University in Klaipėda, Lithuania, follows more than four years of service as ESL specialist and doctoral student at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He earned the MA TESOL from Northern Illinois University in 2019.

John has worked for more than ten years as an English teacher among and as an advocate for Latin American communities in the United States, México, and South America. In Atlanta, John worked for the nonprofit organizations Literacy Volunteers of Atlanta (2010-12) and the Latin American Association (2011-15). In 2011, in Popayán, Cauca, Colombia, he served as a six-month volunteer for a teacher’s union, La Asociación de Institutores y Trabajadores de la Educación del Cauca (ASOINCA), providing curriculum and teacher-development resources for public-school K-12 English teachers. He returned to Colombia in 2018 as a peace-accompaniment volunteer in the Urabá region.

In Chicago, he has volunteered with Universidad Popular, a community education center in La Villita, and has also worked with English-language learners in Lithuania, Cape Verde, and Thailand. From 2016-19, he studied in the MA TESOL program at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb with interests in adult education, applied linguistics, border identities, intercultural communication, and language-based discrimination. In late 2016 and early 2017, he spent three weeks in southern Arizona learning about border and migration issues and volunteering with the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Sonora, México.

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