Teri McCarthy holds a PhD in education with an emphasis in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Kansas. She has worked with the International Institute for Christian Studies ( www.iics.com ) since 1996. She has taught at the university level long-term in China and Russia and short-term in Holland, Nigeria and Afghanistan. She teaches linguistics at Vilnius Pedagogical University in Lithuania. She is married to the President of IICS, Dr. Daryl McCarthy. Teri’s work has taken her to over 50 countries. She and Daryl have two married children (Lance, who is married to Jamie and Lana who is married to Kevin) and two grandsons–Jack and Kempis and a granddaughter named Athena Day.

Her first book, coauthored with good friend and IICS teammate Mike Romanowski, Teaching in a Distant Classroom: Crossing Borders for Global Transformation is available at InterVarsity Press online at www.ivpress.com. Or through Amazon.com.