Heather Bruce Satrom has taught non-native speakers of English in the English Language for Academic Purposes program at MC since 2005. She received the 2024 Award for Faculty Innovation from the American Association of Community Colleges for her oral history project, History in the Making: Documenting Stories of Immigrant and Refugee students at Montgomery College (www.historyinthemaking.blog). She has served as an ELAP program coordinator and academic advisor. Prof. Satrom has participated in the Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship, the Scholarship for Excellence in Teaching Fellowship, the Global Classrooms Fellowship, the Quantitative Reasoning in the Disciplines Fellowship, the Many Voices One College Global Humanities Fellowship, and the Belfer National Conference for English Educators at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Prof. Satrom has also completed training in Digital Storytelling through StoryCenter, and she incorporates both digital storytelling and museum education into her courses. Prof. Satrom developed a project at the National Museum of African American History and Culture related to teaching students about the Black Lives Matter movement. Prior to teaching at MC, she worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and at Brevard Community College in Florida. Prof. Satrom won an Outstanding Faculty Service Award in 2018.

Contact Information:

Email: heather.satrom@montgomerycollege.edu

Educational Background:

BA, Journalism, American University

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MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, with a double concentration in Teaching French), School for International Training Graduate Institute, Brattleboro, Vermont

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Diplôme Supérieur d’Etudes Françaises (Advanced Diploma in French Studies), Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France