Biography
Abeer Al-Mohsen earned her undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Georgia State University and her Master of Public Administration from California State University in Long Beach. She worked for the Department of Defense at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey as an Arabic instructor, curriculum and test developer from 2007 to 2014. She earned the Federal Career Service Award Certificate for her civil service. She was also recognized for her contribution to the development of the first Saudi Gulf curriculum and proficiency test (DLPT) for DoD. While working for DLI, she pursued her doctorate in International and Multicultural education with concertation in Second language Acquisition.
Before starting her job as an Assistant Director of Language Education at Tulane, she was the Director of Arabic Language at Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center a division of the Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman in Washington, DC. During her 7-year tenure at SQCC, she designed and launched SQCC Arabic Evening Language Program, Arabic Intensive Summer Immersion in DC Program and Children’s Arabic Program. She also conceptualized and implemented several cultural programs and events, including Poetry and Prose evenings, Arabic Debate Society and Competition, and World Arabic Language Day celebration, among others. To solidify her experience in language program management, she earned Foreign Language Management Certification from Columbia University in 2021.