Anastassia is Master Lecturer at the University of Southern California and has been with the American Language Institute since 2022. She earned her Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics and a certificate in TESOL from Biola University and her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California Irvine. At the ALI, she has developed and taught oral communication courses for international students, and in more recent years, she has been specializing in teacher training courses for international teaching assistants. She has also served as Adjunct Assistant Professor with Rossier School of Education where she co-developed a course on assessment and taught teacher training courses in the MAT-TESOL program. For service to her department, Anastassia has served as Chair of the Merit Evaluation Committee and Chair of the Faculty Evaluation Committee resulting in the promotion of several of her colleagues in her department. For her service to the University, Anastassia has served as USC Academic Senator, as Secretary for a year and as Chair of the Dornsife Faculty Council for two years.  Anastassia has also worked with publishers including Oxford University Press, Pearson Education, and Houghton-Mifflin in the development of ESL textbooks and instructional materials.  She has studied French, Ancient Greek, and is fluent in Modern Greek.