Organization
English Language and Training Academy- American University
English Language and Training Academy- American University
Member Program: Single Site
Executive Board Bio
Ken Janjigian, is currently the English Language and Training Academy (ELTA) Director and the Academic Director of the International Accelerator Program (IAP) at American University. He has worked in international education for over 28 years. Prior to joining AU in 2012, he taught at UMBC, Northeastern, and Harvard University’s Institute for English Language. At Brandeis University he helped launch their ESL pathway program. A Boston native, he has also lived in San Francisco and Italy, where he taught English. Outside of the TESOL world, Ken writes fiction. He has had three books published: Gone West (a collection of novellas), Defending Infinity (novel), and most recently the novel A Cerebral Offer (Livingston Press, 2020), which received a bronze medal in Urban Fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (2021).