Claudia Cremasco is the co-founder of Academic Initiatives Abroad and serves as its Director of Language Instruction with an emphasis on task-based language teaching. She has a degree in Literature from Rome’s La Sapienza University. She was awarded for teaching excellence at both Harvard and California Polytechnic State University, and has also taught at Roma Tre University, IUSM and the Italy programs of Penn State University, Cal Poly, Northeastern University, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Nebraska, the University of Chicago, Arcadia, Iowa State University and others.