Stephanie Kashima

tel:408-855-5319
email: stephanie_kashima@wvm.edu

Stephanie Kashima received her Bachelor's degree in English Literature from New York University and her Master's degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. 

She then taught English as a second language at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.  After moving back to the United States in 1990, she worked as an instructor and program director for Korean youth programs at the Korean Center in San Francisco. In 1994, Stephanie joined the faculty of Mission College as a part-time instructor and in 2002 she became a full-time instructor.

Stephanie spent time living in South Korea (her mother's birth country) as a child growing up in Taegu and Seoul. She has wonderful memories of visiting the beautiful coast in Pusan as a young child and of living on the campus of Keimyung University in Taegu where her parents were professors and where her Korean friends would visit daily shouting "Nolja!" ("Let's play!").  She speaks basic Korean and continues to visit Korea most years during the summer. 

During her free time, Stephanie enjoys spending time with her family, gardening, reading great fiction and poetry, playing the piano - jazz and classical, and indulging her love of photography.

Her great joy, though, is spending time in the classroom with her students. She loves to teach!