WAESOL, the Washington state affiliate of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), is a professional, non-profit organization whose purposes are to:
Promote scholarship
Disseminate information related to ESOL
Strengthen instruction, teacher training, and research in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages
Audra Lord currently serves as a tenure-track faculty member in Highline College’s ELCAP program. She holds a Master’s of Linguistics and has taught ESOL in New Zealand, Thailand, and the USA.