Cristina Mocanu

Cristina is an ESL teacher, mentor, and trainer. For the past sixteen years, she has been working in Costache Negruzzi National College of Iași in Romania, all the while carrying out numerous extracurricular projects on topics ranging from mentorship and teacher training, inclusion, environment and citizenship to film, digital and media literacy. She has also had numerous project-based collaborations with different NGOs and governmental programs in Romania and abroad.
Cristina has her B.A. in Romanian & English Language and Literature from University of Iasi, Romania, where she has also earned her M.A. and PhD in Humanities, in 2009 and 2012 respectively. In 2022, she was awarded a full scholarship from the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program of the US Department of State, which she has completed in UW Madison, Wisconsin, USA. She published extensively, participated in numerous educational and academic events worldwide, and benefited from research scholarships in Spain, Germany, and Austria. Her primary goals are to continually explore, experience and share new ways of being a better teacher for her students and peers.