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“Language Arts Press has a great reputation here among the faculty of our program.  One instructor wrote this to me few terms ago (when I told her what a pleasure it is to work with Language Arts Press): ‘They're ESL teachers at a community college out east who decided to create materials that don't cost students an arm and a leg.  You can tell how committed they are by the way they run their business.’”

Ella Bozigar
Intensive English Language Program
Portland State University

Michael Berman, Chief Education Officer
Michael founded Language Arts Press in 2007 with the mission of developing cutting-edge, high quality materials that are affordable for his community college students and for all others who must pay for their course materials. Michael is an award-winning materials writer and teacher, and is professor of ESL at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, USA.  You can email him directly at MBerman@LanguageArtsPress.com.

Joe Sutliff, Art Director
Joe – a multi- award-winning artist, designer and educator – has breathed life into Language Arts Press publications since 2007. 

Authors
Mark Alves, Ph.D., co-authored The Word Combination Card with Michael Berman and Ray Gonzales, co-authored The Grammar You Need series with Eileen Cotter and Henry Caballero, and has written numerous journal articles on Vietnamese morphology and other topics. Mark is an award-winning professor of ESL at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. 

Henry Caballero co-authored The Grammar You Need series with Eileen Cotter and Mark Alves. Henry also co-authored a chapter with Michael Berman and others in Volume I of TESOL’s Perspectives on Community College ESL series. Henry is a professor of ESL and an “e-learning” associate at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. 

Eileen Cotter co-authored The Grammar You Need series with Mark Alves and Henry Caballero.  Eileen is also the author of the successful AEP textbook College Writing 2: English for Academic Success. Eileen is an award-winning professor of ESL at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. 

Ray Gonzales authored The Word Combination Card with Michael Berman and Mark Alves.  He is an award-winning professor and the ESL program coordinator at Montgomery College – Rockville Campus.

Sharon Ahern Fechter, Ph.D., is the lead Spanish language consultant for Language Arts Press.  She and her husband Tom, an experienced food service veteran, co-wrote the Say-It Language Card for Restaurants and Cafeterias.  Sharon is professor of Spanish at Montgomery College and president of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Raúl Basulto provides the rich, vibrant Spanish voice on the Say-It audio programs and also serves as a Spanish language consultant during the development of the Cards.  He is professor of Spanish at Montgomery College.