Carleen Velez
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Lecturer, Writing Programs, UCLA
Carleen Curley Velez holds an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, both from UCLA. She specializes in teaching writing and communication skills to international graduate students. When not teaching, she is supervising graduate teaching assistants for various ESL courses.