03: Alinnette Casiano

L&D Loves Languages

Feb 23 2024 • 25 mins

In our third episode, Katherine and Sarah speak with Alinnette Casiano, a bilingual learning and development leader with over 15 years of experience in education and leadership. She builds learning experiences through user experience research for cloud services sales enablement at Amazon Web Services. She recently started a doctoral program in public and nonprofit leadership. She is a Puerto Rican living in Texas and has a passion for emotional intelligence and community involvement through volunteering. Ali is fluent in English and Spanish.

Ali, Sarah and Katherine chat about Ali’s bilingualism as a superpower that allows her to understand and connect with people from a wide variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Also, Ali describes how she engages in user experience research in two languages, and her hopes for a multilingual future.

Mentioned in the podcast: Is Learning a Third Language Easier?

Connect with Ali on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alinnettecasiano/

Connect with Katherine on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinermatheson/

Connect with Sarah on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-kosel-agnihotri

Here is the transcript for this episode.