Andrea Echelberger has worked in adult education as a classroom teacher and instructional trainer for 20 years, providing training and support for English language teachers on a state and national level. Andrea has worked with refugee-background adult emergent readers, served as an EL Fellow and EL Specialist with the US State Department, and developed a wide variety of workshops and classroom instructional materials. Andrea holds a MA in Teaching ESL from Hamline University and a MN ABE Teaching License from the University of Minnesota.