Lena Karabushin, M.A. is a multilingual educator passionately advocating for multilingual students. She is ESL Faculty at the Community College of Aurora. Before CCA, Lena was a Lead Trainer of a pre-employment training program for refugees at Spring Institute. She immigrated to Denver, Colorado from Kyiv, Ukraine with her family as Jewish refugees in 1991, one month before the collapse of the Soviet Union. She lives in Aurora, Colorado with her husband and three children.