Christina Ball, Ph.D

Owner and Director at Speak! Language Center
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Greater Charlottesville Area
Languages
  • Italian -
  • Spanish -

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Credentials

  • SWaM : Small, Women-Owned and Minority-Owned Business
    Commonwealth of Virginia

Experience

  • Speak! Language Center
    • United States
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Owner and Director
      • Sep 2005 - Present

      Speak! Language Center offers premier foreign language education programs and services in 12 languages including Italian Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and more. Speak! also specializes in ESL education for professionals and graduate students via its B-Speak! program (bspeakenglish.com).

    • Owner and Director
      • Sep 2004 - Present

    • Director
      • Sep 2012 - Present

      Co-creator of bpseakenglish.com - a one-on-one coaching/educational service designed to help international graduate students and working professionals strengthen their speaking and writing skills in the English language.

    • Italian/English Translator
      • Jan 2001 - Sep 2004

      Translator of all types of documents and manuscripts, both through Speak! Language Center and as a free-lance translator.

  • University of Virginia
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Actor
      • Jun 2019 - Present

      Ensemble Member in UVA's new Applied Theater Initiative. Through performance and dialogue, UVA Acts promotes preventative practices that foster equitable, vibrant spaces for working and learning at the University of Virginia. Drawing on practices in Theatre of the Oppressed, Theatre in Education, and community-based performance, UVA Acts ensembles perform plays interrupted with moments of facilitated dialogue and audience intervention. Our programming is developed with a focus on interventions that faculty members can employ to promote equity in the workplace and the classroom. Show less

  • Virginia Living
    • United States
    • Book and Periodical Publishing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Contributing Editor (Dining)
      • Feb 2004 - Aug 2011

      Food Writer Food Writer

  • Virginia Film Festival
    • United States
    • Entertainment
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Publicity Coordinator and Editor/Writer
      • May 2000 - Dec 2002

      Coordinated publicity for prominent film festival. Worked with local news media, coordinated festival PR events, wrote press releases and wrote/edited articles and reviews for the festival catalog.. Coordinated publicity for prominent film festival. Worked with local news media, coordinated festival PR events, wrote press releases and wrote/edited articles and reviews for the festival catalog..

    • Visiting Professor of Italian
      • Sep 2000 - May 2001

      Designed and taught a variety of Italian language and literature courses for undergraduates. Designed and taught a variety of Italian language and literature courses for undergraduates.

  • U.S. Department of State
    • United States
    • International Affairs
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Fulbright Scholar
      • Aug 1993 - May 1994

      As the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship, I researched Italian Futurism while based in Bologna, Italy. As the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship, I researched Italian Futurism while based in Bologna, Italy.

Education

  • Yale University
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Italian language and literature
    1991 - 1998
  • Fulbright Scholar
    Italian Literature
    1993 - 1994
  • Bowdoin College
    B.A., Art History
    1983 - 1987

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