She worked as the lead music teacher for Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia and is a Kennedy Center Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA) partner. She has a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees, both in piano pedagogy from Wichita State University. She is working toward her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in music education. Helen Konstantopoulos teaches English as a Second Language (ESL) in Northwest’s ESL program. She comes to Northwest with 16 years of experience teaching ESL in Greece and was a restaurant manager for five years. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in secondary education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her ESL certification while working in Greece.