Meet Our Staff
ESL Instructors
Kim Andersen
Founder and Director
Kim Andersen is the Founder and Director of Empire State English. She has a background in teaching English as a Second Language and Spanish.
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Linda Wien
Instructor
Linda Wien is an English as a Second Language instructor for Empire State English. She has a lot of experience teaching adults at all levels.
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Nina Fleishman
Instructor
Nina Fleishman has taught English as a Second Language in a variety of settings for more than 35 years. She joined CRLC and ESE in 2018.
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Liana Corniel
Instructor
Liana started teaching English as a Second Language in 2009. She taught English for Academic Purposes at the City University of New York (CUNY) for 5 years. She then lived in Turkey for 3 years, where she worked at a top-rated university teaching English to freshmen students.
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Sonya Kim
Academic Program Coordinator
Sonya was born in the United States, but raised in South Korea until she returned to the States for her graduate school. She holds a BA in History and English language & literature from Korea, and earned her MA in TESOL from University of Pennsylvania.
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Aidan Bardos
Instructor
Aidan Bardos grew up in small-town New Hampshire. They hold a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies from Wesleyan University.
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