Lee Anne McIlroy (1982) graduated from both UCLA and CSULB with degrees in Linguistics and became proficient in French, German, Japanese, Shangazidja, Spanish and Swahili. In 2013 Lee Anne was the senior English Language Fellow in Tanzania for the U.S. State Department which led her to write Sleeping with Lions: A Year in Tanzania which won the 2022 Gold Medal Award for Literary Titan. She is currently the chair of the department of credit ESL at Cerritos College.
