Isabel Sacks

Isabel is a language learner and language educator who believes that language education is both personal and political. She has taught English in Brazil and the Dominican Republic as well as introductory Portuguese to Syrian refugee students in Brazil. While a student at Swarthmore, Isabel spent over a year in Sarah Apt’s classroom working with emergent bilingual students and collecting qualitative data for “Language Policy and Practice in Almost-Bilingual Classrooms,” a paper in which she is a co-author with Elaine and Sarah.

Isabel holds a BA in Educational Studies and Latin American Studies from Swarthmore College (Class of 2015) and an MA in International Comparative Education from Stanford Graduate School of Education (Class of 2019). She now works at Minerva, an innovative new liberal arts college based in seven global cities that serves students from almost 80 countries. Her role involves connecting students with professional opportunities across the globe, and on the side she advises a student group that organizes peer-to-peer language tutoring.