Dr. Linda Di Desidero currently teaches professional writing at World Bank Group in Washington, DC, at the University of Maryland Global Campus, and global development groups such as GIZ, IDOS, and DSIK. She recently served the United States Dept of Defense as the Director of the Leadership Communication Skills Center at Marine Corps University at Quantico. Throughout her career, she has chaired two academic departments and administered two writing centers that served both academic and professional writers. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in leadership communication, professional communication, composition, linguistics, literature, and education. Dr. Di Desidero holds a PhD in Linguistics (Northwestern University), an EdM in English Education (Rutgers University), and BA degrees in English and in German language and literature (Rutgers University). In addition to her projects on third space writing theory that inform her professional writing courses, Dr. Di Desidero’s recent research uses methods associated with the ethnography of communication to investigate language and identity within specific educational, workplace, and leadership contexts. Recent publications include “Facework and the Negotiation of Identity in Online Class Discussions” (2018, Writing in Online Courses, Myers Education Press); The Marine Corps University Communications Style Guide, 11th edition (2018); and “A Rose by any Other Name: The Use of Honorifics in University Adult Education” (in The Distance Education Oracle, 2012).Complementing her professional work in communication is her work as a yoga instructor at YogaLinda in Maryland and at Dimitra Yoga in Lewes, DE, where she teaches classes in Hatha, Vinyasa, and Yin.