Diane Nottle is the ESL coach to the international students and other non-native English speakers in CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism. Her 35-year career in journalism included 20 years as an editor at The New York Times specializing in arts and culture. She holds a certificate in English language teaching from New School University and has taught English at Columbia University, the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, Poland, and Hunan University of Science and Technology in Xiangtan, China. She has also taught journalism at the University of British Columbia, Colorado State University and Emerson College.