Gölge SEFEROĞLU is a professor and the coordinator of the MA in TESOL program at CSUSB. She holds MA, EdM, and EdD degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University in TESOL and Applied Linguistics. Before joining CSUSB, Dr. Gölge Seferoğlu worked as a professor at Middle East Technical University in Türkiye for 23 years and trained thousands of teachers and supervised 44 MA and PhD thesis in TESOL. She served as external examiner on hundreds of master’s and doctoral dissertation committees widely. Dr. Gölge Seferoğlu has directed many research projects and has been published in respected journals and has been cited extensively (Google Scholar citations: 2000). She received many outstanding academic performance awards and was chosen as one of the 80 inspiring women in Türkiye in the British Council’s 80 Years, 80 Women, 80 Stories. She delivered numerous invited keynote speeches at prestigious international research conferences. Her research interests include social justice in ELT, technology enhanced language learning and teaching, pre- and in-service teacher education, and quality in education.