John Turnbull is an English as a Second Language Specialist at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He earned the MA TESOL in the Department of English at Northern Illinois University. John has worked for nearly ten years as an English teacher among and as an advocate for Latin American communities in the United States, México, and South America. In Atlanta, John worked for the nonprofit organizations Literacy Volunteers of Atlanta (2010-12) and the Latin American Association (2011-15). In 2011, in Popayán, Cauca, Colombia, he served as a volunteer for a teacher’s union, La Asociación de Institutores y Trabajadores de la Educación del Cauca, providing curriculum and teacher-development resources for public-school K-12 English teachers. He was also a peace accompanier in the Urabá region of Colombia. In Chicago, he has volunteered with Universidad Popular, a community center in La Villita, and has also worked with English-language learners in Lithuania, Cape Verde, and Thailand.