Our Team
Aloha, Hola, Ni Hao, Bonjour! My name is Amy Swirsky. I am the Lango Managing Director on Oahu, wife and mother of two kids. My passion for languages really took hold at Lewis & Clark College where I spent a semester studying at the Universidad de Cuyo in Argentina. After graduation, I lived in Ecuador and taught at El Centro de Estudios Interamericanos teaching English as a second language to non-English speaking students. Before moving to Hawaii, I lived in Mexico working as a bilingual contract recruiter.
I believe it’s important for kids to learn a second language and about other cultures at a young age. When children learn a foreign language, it broadens their perspective of the world and gives them greater opportunity. I am excited to manage the Lango Program on Oahu and thrilled to be teaching some of the Spanish classes. Lango is an ideal supplement to any preschool and elementary school curriculum.
My goal is to have kids feel the excitement of learning new languages by providing engaging, high-quality language emersion classes in convenient locations throughout Oahu. What makes the program successful is a unique blend of; a FUN filled curriculum, small classes, many convenient locations and extremely dedicated teachers, who make our classes truly exceptional.
Additional Teacher Bios coming soon!
Lango is headquartered in San Francisco, California where the concept of Lango was born and the curriculum perfected. Lango's first language focus was Spanish but has since branched out to include Mandarin and French. Meet the San Francisco team!
Michael Fee, Lango's Managing Director, has spent his entire career in education, starting as a high school English Teacher with Teach For America in rural Arkansas. Since then, he has held various leadership positions, including running after-school tutoring centers for Score Educational Centers and leading Intrax Cultural Exchange's study abroad and English-instruction businesses. He also earned his BA from Stanford and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Most proudly, he is father to three children, all of whom are learning Spanish at Lango!
Brigette Iarrusso, Lango's Director of Curriculum and Training learned Spanish from her Puerto Rican grandmother while growing up in New York City. She has designed programs for Catholic Relief Services, the United Nations Association, USAID and the New York City Department of Education. Brigette's work has taken her to Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico and Peru where she worked with young children, community leaders, teachers and local government officials. Brigette holds a BA in Political Science and a Masters degree in Public Administration from Columbia University. She is committed to teaching all young children a second language as the key to bridging the divide between people of all backgrounds.