Wendy Finlayson has been an English Language Fellow with the U.S. Department of State since August 2018. She teaches English at A.S. Makarenko Sumy State Pedagogical University in Sumy and provides training for primary, secondary and university teachers throughout Ukraine. She has a Master’s Degree in TESOL and a Bachelor's Degree in Spanish. Before moving to Ukraine, she worked in higher education and the adult education field as both a teacher and an administrator for 12 years. She has provided training on best practices in second language acquisition and teaching at the local, state and national levels.