David Skolnick

David Skolnick (he/him) teaches CWR1A at UC Berkeley, specializing in teaching multi-lingual students, and has been teaching academic vocabulary, cultural studies, research, reading, and writing in the UC Berkeley Summer English Language Studies program since 2005.  He is Assistant Professor in the Writing and Literature program at the California College of the Arts, and has taught at the College of Marin, and the San Francisco Art Institute.  He got a BA in History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a Graduate teaching certificate at George Mason University, and an MA in TESOL at San Francisco State University.  He lived and traveled in Asia for three and a half years, where he taught English to a wide range of students and miraculously survived many brushes with death.