She runs CELT Athens, a centre offering a variety of TEFL training programmes, from TEFL and CELTA certificates to Cambridge DELTA courses. Marisa has a DipTEFLA and an M.A. in Applied Linguisitcs from the University of Reading (UK). She is a frequent conference speaker at conferences – IATEFL, TESOL France, as well as online conferences, such as the Virtual Round Table, Slanguages and RSCON. She joined Second Life in 2009 and has been a resident in Edunation since 2012. Marisa is a moderator/co-founder of the ELTon nominated weekly #ELTChat on Twitter which organises free professional development chats and maintains a blog full of resources. She helped in the moderation of MachinEVO 2012 and was moderator for Digikids EVO in 2013.