She has organized, taught, and participated in summer camps dedicated to educating young people in their language and culture and teaches at the Latvian School. She has also been a room parent and library volunteer at Littlebrook School. Anca Niculin is employed by Formal Systems, where she works on all aspects of computer-based training programs for corporations using multimedia techniques. Toby Peterson is an adjunct professor at Hudson County Community College in Jersey City, where she teaches basic English courses to immigrants and students who speak standard English as a second dialect. Her approach focuses on analytical thinking and writing skills, using class discussions as an important vehicle to promote analysis.
Students learn to organize their thinking and writing using five-paragraph essays.
Toby Peterson is a certified teacher in New Jersey and New York. She has taught English at Cornell University, at the Cascadilla School in Ithaca, NY, and in the New York City public schools. Currently she is the treasurer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Conference Board which oversees two international technical conferences and six workshops each year with combined budgets of over two million dollars. Since 1995 she has been a member of the Lehigh University Engineering Advisory Council. Maureen Quirk has been active in public education for the past six years.