Puzzling together the big ideas since 1996

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About Me

I am Danielle Cohen (a.k.a. Danielle or Dani Cohen-Bautista), a California-licensed English teacher with 25+ years dedicated to teaching language to people of all ages and backgrounds--in classrooms, in conversation, online, and even through text messaging. Language exchange is my favorite activity.

Relationships with friends of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds, such as German, Italian, and Iranian, plus early language education prepped me to desire more fluency in communicating and piqued my interest in diversity. Not realizing I was born and borne for California, I studied French in high school and university. I then studied and used ASL during parenthood; and as an educator, have been compelled and self-propelled to become proficient in using the Spanish of SoCal. Daily, I practice Spanish and regularly strive to learn the First Languages of family, friends, and clients (Tagalog, Korean, Russian, and Chinese at present). ss

My interest in American ethnic groups and language was documented in my senior thesis on selections of American Ethnic Literature at Indiana University, where I graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology. Choosing against studying people as scientific subjects, I pursued graduate study in my hometown, Indianapolis, Indiana, earned my English teaching credential, and moved to California in 1996 to teach English at a public high school. Through summer seminars, I completed my M.A. in English at Butler, finishing up with a master's thesis on selections of Chicano and Filipino literature.

I have worked in IT since 2000 for the companies my spouse and I founded and continue to develop, and creating digital products for entertainment, information, business, and education.

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