Christopher Kaiser is the Director of the Columbia University Language Resource Center. He received his B.A. in Italian and Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh, his M.A. in Italian Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, and his Ph.D. in Italian Literature from Yale University. His areas of interest include second language pedagogy, distance learning, artificial intelligence, individualization, inter-institutional collaboration, climate and language, and language-learning advocacy.

He is the current president of the Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALLT), and he serves on the Modern Language Association Task Force on World Languages and Generative AI.

He is also the host of Said & Done, the LRC’s monthly podcast about language learning.

Kim Edmunds is the Educational Technologist at the Language Resource Center. She received her B.A. in Linguistics and Creative Writing from Emory University and her M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Teachers College, Columbia University. 

Her areas of interest include technology-enriched language instruction, virtual learning communities, Global Englishes, and linguistically inclusive pedagogy in higher education.