
Vanessa Bertelli
Executive Director and co-founder

Linsey Silver
Director of Teaching and Learning

Johanna Barrantes
Commuity Outreach Strategist

Renee Metellus
Research Assisstant

Nick Huang
Volunteer Research Associate

Tam Nguyen
Volunteer Coordinator

Joshua Myers
Communications and Development Intern
Joshua is an undergraduate student at Georgetown University majoring in Linguistics and minoring in Classical Languages and French. Previously, he spent two summers working at City Hall in Hoboken, NJ as an assistant to the Director of Communications. Outside of DC Immersion, Joshua volunteers as a research assistant in Georgetown’s Linguistics department. joshua@dcimmersion.org

Daiyang Zhang
Communications and Development Intern
Daiyang graduated from Georgetown University in 2019 with a M.A in Communication, Culture and Technology, focusing on East Asian Studies. She holds a B.A in International Economics and Trade from Fudan University, Shanghai. Prior to her internship in DC Immersion, she worked as reporter and assistant to director in several Chinese news agencies. Daiyang is a native Chinese speaker and has intermediary proficiency in Japanese. daiyang@dcimmersion.org