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Amanda Dutton is very proud to say that before she earned a PhD in Comparative Studies from Florida Atlantic University, an MA in British Literature from FAU, and a BA in English from FAU, she earned her Associate of Arts at Indian River Community College. She is deeply grateful and always amazed that she has a career that she loves and wants to help YOU find the same reward in your future profession. It is not often that we get to give back to people and a community that have given us so much and she is delighted to be so lucky that she can do so by serving higher education, especially at Kennesaw State University. It is still a little strange for her to be on the other side of the whiteboard, but she finds it to be deeply rewarding and a heck of a lot of fun. Her students are her passion. Their success not just in college but in careers and life itself is the gift she wants to share with all of the amazing young (and maybe not so young) people she meets as an instructor.

Before becoming an English tutor, Melanie Davis earned a B.A. in Spanish (with a minor in French) at Covenant College and an MA in Applied Linguistics (with a TESOL concentration) at Georgia State University. She is an experienced English language tutor having taught at private ESL schools and in KSU's Intensive English Program before joining the awesome team at KSU’s English Language Program. Driven by care and compassion, she takes pride in providing a relaxing environment to learn English. As a tutor, her goals include helping students gain confidence in various aspects of the English language and getting to know students beyond their English language goals. When she is not excitedly assisting students, she loves going on long walks, meeting and petting new dogs, and spending time with her family and friends playing games, going out to eat, and traveling. If you step into her office, you can get a glimpse of all of her favorite things through the photos she has hanging on the walls.