Tatiana Barankova

- Director and founder of the Russian Center for Languages and Arts

- Russian, Musical Theater, Chorus, and Piano

Tatiana Barankova has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Choral Conducting and Music Education from State Musical College named after the Gnessins (Moscow, Russia), Diploma with honors; Certificate in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language from Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia). Tatiana is currently working on her Master of Music degree at the College of Fine Arts of Boston University, specializing in Music Education. Tatiana is a member of MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) and ACTR (American Council of Teachers of Russian). Tatiana also teaches piano at the Newton Music Academy

Tatiana has 15+ years of teaching experience with variety of students from children to adults.

Personal website: www.twinklebee.net

Valeriya Kozlovskaya

1. -Director of the Ancient Studies Program
   

2. -Archaeology, Ancient Civilizations, Latin/Greek, and German
   

Valeriya Kozlovskaya has an MA in Foreign Languages and Education from the Pedagogical State University in St. Petersburg (Russia) and a PhD in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College (USA). Valeriya is a professional archaeologist with many years of excavation experience in Greece, Turkey, and Russia. She has taught courses in mythology, ancient civilizations, and archaeology at university level in New Jersey and Massachusetts.

Tatiana Rachytskaya

- Art, Arts & Crafts, Batik

Tatiana studied at Vitebsk Art College and later at Belarusian State University of Arts, from which she graduated in 2001 with Diploma “cum laude”. After that she worked for 10 years at the Minsk College of Arts as an instructor of several art disciplines.

Tatiana is well-known artist working in techniques of batik, silk painting, shibori and many others. Her achievements were recognized with a Special Fellowship of the President of the Republic of Belarus for Talented Youth. Tatiana is a member of Guild of Silk Painters (UK) and other artistic communities and unions. Her artworks have been displayed at international exhibitions in Belarus, Russia, Poland, and Norway.

Irina Dubinina

- Russian as a Foreign Language

Irina Dubinina is a sociolinguist and a specialist in second language acquisition with over ten years of experience in teaching Russian to English-speaking Americans. Her particular expertise and research interests lie in the areas of bilingualism, bilingual code-switching, and heritage languages.  As the Director of the Russian Language Program at Brandeis University, she works with a large population of students from Russian-speaking immigrant families who are interested in developing and maintaining their language skills. Irina teaches courses on beginning literacy (writing and reading) and advanced language skills to these Russian heritage speakers.  She is also the winner of a prestigious Doris Garland Prize for Outstanding Teaching from Bryn Mawr College — the university where she is currently completing her doctoral dissertation on how requests are used in Russian by adult heritage speakers.

Bella Feldman

1. -Speech Therapy for Children
   

Bella Feldman holds BA and MA degrees in Linguistics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; MA degree in Speech-Language-Audiology, New York University, New York. She is certified SLP by the American Speech-Language-Audiology Association; licensed by the state of Massachusetts.

Bella has worked in elementary school, early intervention, and a preschool with specialization in developmental disorders.

3Z Animation Studio

1. -Clay Animation Workshops