Staff

Luba Hodges, Ph.D.

About the founder and instructor:

Education:

• Ph.D. in Education (Moscow State Linguistic University), 1998

• Master’s degree in English & French (Lipetsk State Pedagogical University), 1995

Experience:

• Full-time lecturer at USC 2010 – current

• Professor of English as a Second Language in UCLA 1998 – 2015

• Teacher of Russian in Micheltorena Russian school 2011-2014

• Teacher of Russian in Beverly Hills Lingual Institute 1999-2002

• Founder & director of English language immersion summer camp

  “English Club” in Moscow 1994-1998

Hobbies:

Being around children, literature, classical music, gourmet cooking, learning new things, discovering new landscapes.

Anna Ksendz

Education:

• M.A. in Russian and Literature (Kiev State Pedagogical University, 1987)

Experience:

•  Teacher of Russian, Literature, Theory of Fine Arts in RUSAC, LA, CA (2016 - current) 

• Teacher of Russian and Literature in Micheltorena Russian School, LA, CA  (2007-2014)

Hobbies: 

Reading, ballroom and historical dances, gardening, travel, cooking, history of fine arts.

Yelena Briksina

Education:

• Basic and Advanced Core Certificate Program in ECE, UCLA (2005)

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Samara State Technical University (1980)

Experience:

• Teacher of Russian in RUSAC (2017 – current)

• Teacher of Russian in Argyle Russian school (2015 – 2017)

• Assistant Teacher in WJCC school (2001 – 2014)

Hobbies:

Practicing yoga, traveling with close friends and discovering new places, listening to classical music and jazz, reading good books.