Laura McMullen began working at Hope in December 2016. She has also worked in program management, office management and event planning roles at Calvin College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Education

• M.A., teaching English to speakers of other languages, Cornerstone University, 2012
• Second Teaching Certificate, teaching English to speakers of other languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006
• B.A., history and social studies secondary education, Bethel University, 2002

Professional Experience

Beyond working in academia, Laura has also enjoyed several years of working with immigrants and refugees.

Laura holds an M.A. in TESOL (teaching English to speakers of other languages) and has spent a decade teaching, both as a secondary school teacher in Orange County Schools in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and an English as an additional language teacher to adult learners in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As part of her service to the TESOL community, she also served for several years as an editor for the Christian English Language Educators Association newsletter.

 Why Do You Love Hope?

Serving in academia means that every day Laura gets to support those who are doing cutting-edge research to change the world. She supports those who are changing lives of individual students through the sort of mentoring that can happen well in a small liberal arts college, and she helps make life-changing programs possible. She loves being able to be a part of a faith community where scholarship, leadership and service are all integral to what Hope does.