<p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #ff9933;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Board of Advisors <br />
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<p><strong>Luis Franco-Alfonso, M.A.</strong>, Spanish Translation is a certified and published translator and author. He has worked in statewide parent involvement projects, developing policy and delivering (bilingual) training for parents, educators, and the business community. He has worked for Andersen Consulting, Capital One and has taught in high school, university and corporate settings.</p>
<p><strong>Effie Papatzikou Cochran, Ed.D</strong>., Applied Linguistics, is Professor, City University of New York, and an internationally regarded sociolinguist. She has published extensively and is editor of the acclaimed book Into the academic mainstream: Guidelines for teaching language minority students, adopted by TESOL; and co-editor of TESOL Issues in Gender, Language Learning, and Classroom Pedagogy.&#160;</p>
<p><strong>Lynda Franco, M.A</strong>., Education: Sheltered Instruction, has taught content-based ESOL in the U.S. and abroad for 26 years. She was Director at the Colorado Department of Education with the role of training teachers on the SIOP Model, and has worked for the Center for Applied Linguistics, LeapFrog, PBS, etc. She is a published author of ELL texts and has worked on national literacy initiatives, including Reading First, Reading Success Network; and co-authored numerous publications.&#160;</p>
<p><strong>Yolanda Gayol, Ph.D</strong>., Adult/Distance Education, is an internationally recognized specialist in distance education. She is a visiting research scientist on evaluation of learning technologies at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, advisor to the World Bank, USAID, and a faculty member at Fielding Graduate University (Educational Leadership &amp; Change).&#160;</p>
<p><strong>Bob Mohl, Ph.D</strong>., Math and Media Technology is a multimedia educator with a B.S. in Math and Ph.D in Education and Media Technology, both from MIT. He has played a leading design or producer role on multimedia research &amp; commercial products including MIT Media Lab's Aspen Movie Map, Apple's Visual Almanac and cd-rom titles Countdown, Planetary Taxi, Top Secret Decoder, SimTown, etc. As Creative Director for Floating Point Media, he has consulted on educational projects for Bank Street College, American Museum of Natural History, LeapFrog, Britannica, eScore, Maxis, Jostens Learning, Futurelab Science Simulation Lab, Lego etc.&#160;</p>
<p><strong>Farimah Schuerman</strong> is a leading Education Technology Consultant and managing partner at Academic Business Partners. She was formally a Principal with the KnowledgeQuest Education Group. Ms. Schuerman is well known in the educational technology community for her experience and ability in strategic planning, sales and marketing for the K-12 and higher education markets. Her expertise has benefited companies that provide media products in traditional and new technologies, as well as emerging companies whose services are delivered on the Internet. She has worked extensively with companies delivering video-based learning and e-learning. She was an executive marketing manager at Pearson Education, where she launched two online efforts for its higher education group. Simon &amp; Schuster's College NewsLink was a joint venture with the New York Times; Pearson Distributed Learning was the distance learning start-up for the largest education publisher in the world.</p>