Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa has been a teacher, counselor, and researcher for the past seventeen years in South America, Asia and Europe, working with children pre-kindergarten through university. She received her Master’s of Education from Harvard University, with distinction work in philanthropy and education, and undergraduate degrees in International Relations (BA) and Mass Communications (BS) from Boston University (Magna Cum Laude).

Tracey gives dozens of workshops a year on foreign language development, learning strategies, methodologies and classroom planning for schools, parents’ groups, businesses, and the diplomatic community with an emphasis on the unique abilities of each individual.

Tracey is currently the Director of Teacher Training at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador and is a Professor of Education in the Education Department. She is also the Director of the Educational Development Center (Centro de Desarrollo Educativo) in Quito which is dedicated to offering low cost teacher training programs and sharing quality information in Spanish with the public (see www.educacionparatodos.com).

Since 2003, Tracey has worked closely with Sesame Workshop in New York as a Promotor for Plaza Sesamo © Andino.

A native Californian, Tracey and her Ecuadorian diplomat husband are raising three children who attend the German school. They speak English, Spanish, German and French. Tracey is half Japanese, half American-Indian and Irish, and has lived in the USA, Switzerland, Ecuador, Japan and Peru.

OTHER: Tracey is the founder of the International Environmental Children’s Museum interactive educational school model (Swiss Foundation Planète Exploration: The Environment Experience). She served as Project Director to 40 people in areas of exhibit development, business plan refinement, architecture and building design, and supervised the organizational structure, legal, human, political and community relations of this new institution in its conceptual stage 1999-2003.

In 2003 Tracey was put in charge of Exhibit Design and served as the Project Manager for ¡Elé!, El Museo de Ciencias Interactivas, at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador.
Tracey is a World Conservation Union Education and Communication Commission Member (2003), Editorial Board Member of the The Bilingual Family Newsletter, Multilingual Matters, Ltd., England (2001-present) and a Permanent Board Member of the Planète Exploration Foundation, Switzerland.