Hadis Ghaedi is a Ph.D. Candidate in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests involve applied linguistics, discourse analysis, academic writing and second language acquisition. She has been teaching Academic Writing in the ESL Program at UW-Madison since 2014 and has experience teaching English and Farsi to language learners from different levels and cultural/linguistic backgrounds both in the U.S. and abroad. She has helped organize academic/cultural events and conferences held at UW-Madison and other venues.