Katherine Lobo

Kathy Lobo is a full-time ESL teacher for Newton Public Schools as well as an adjunct professor of education at Brandeis University, in Massachusetts. With degrees in fine art and multicultural education she has taught in various contexts as a K-12 classroom teacher, including public and private schools in the United States, and in international schools overseas. She is past president of MATSOL, the Massachusetts TESOL affiliate, and she has been actively involved in planning TESOL conventions since Boston TESOL 2010. In March 2018 she began a three-year term on TESOL International’s Board of Directors. She is a life-long language learner (Mandarin Chinese and Japanese) and an artist. In the 1980’s she attended the Tianjin Fine Art College as a one-for-one international exchange student between the sister cites of Tianjin and Philadelphia.