For Joan, family is what's most important in her life, and the same nurturing and caring she showers on the Libera family, including her four grandsons, she showers on her ELI family.
Joan's language and teaching expertise comes from the thirty years she spent completing degree work in English language and literature (with a specialization in business and technical writing), finishing course requirements between the unending chores of marriage and motherhood. Like the students she tutors, Joan is also familiar with the experience of trying to survive in a foreign country, having spent time in Poland and in a Polish language institute struggling to learn the language.
Sometime, when life feels like a race and there's no time to slow down and savor the moment, catch up with Joan in the halls of ELI. Ask her about psychology, great books, antiques, travel, whatever's on your mind: Joan will manage to carve out an unexpected corner of time for you, with a smile and real graciousness.