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This decision birthed the moniker “Irie Givens” - a nod to the island heritage also responsible for the genre’s landing onto 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. As Irie, he founded Freestyle & Floetry Tutorial as a hip-hop composition course sponsored by Classics Professor Dr. Carl Shaw. Freestyle & Floetry was further refined on the way to his senior thesis to encompass public speaking training, history of hip-hop as a subculture and the literary intersections between an emcee’s composition techniques and collective music and verse traditions throughout Eastern and Western societies. After graduating from New College of Florida, Irie moved to Taiwan. There, he pursued a Masters degree in Creative Industries Design from Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University as a Fulbright scholar. Most of the fellow expat artists he met found themselves teaching English by day while trying to spark their artistic careers by night. He then realized the extent of hip-hop’s reach throughout world cultures, and how its art forms can be used as classroom tools for teachers and students alike. In 2019 Lo-Fi Language Learning won Distinguished Honors (1st Prize) at National Taiwan University of Science & Technology’s Be Young Beyond Startup Competition in Taipei, Taiwan. Irie took advantage of this opportunity to blaze a path for more artists like himself to use rap as an entry point to more than just the music industry. Thus, Lo-Fi was established to expand towards a sustainable model for training more arts-inclined educators in the Irie-Miyagi technique: Lo-Fi’s customized methodology for teaching English through hip-hop’s mediums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdc3053a67adb51b92f61ee/1608697001221-TRVRXIXHFH4F37X8NW7S/Naeem+Teaching.png Our Story - Our Mission: Lo-Fi creates opportunities for aspiring urban artists to sustain and develop international careers as future cultural and creative industry leaders — with or without traditional academia! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdc3053a67adb51b92f61ee/ef227db8-dd67-4320-a292-88108f50fe6e/44533030_882243661968941_5561754409462923264_n.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdc3053a67adb51b92f61ee/30741d4c-7abd-4e17-ba6c-4e2d1c896890/Copy+of+HH4C+Copy+of+Lo-Fi+Learning_One+Pager+%28Facebook+Cover%29.png https://www.lofilanguage.com/our-team daily 0.75 2023-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdc3053a67adb51b92f61ee/1608269027147-GWBUF2JTPYUA3AUT1UE6/Miles+Iton+Headshot.jpg Our Team - irie givens, Founder & Program Director Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdc3053a67adb51b92f61ee/1608269071502-KWCMZ3O3JN4FFTNARVIO/Naimul+Chowdhury+Headshot.jpg Our Team - Naimul Chowdhury, EFL Teaching assistant Naimul Chowdhury is an educator and language acquisition enthusiast who has taken the lead on keeping Lo-Fi Language Learning trainees caught up on their Bridge-TEFL coursework. As an International Studies graduate student of Johns Hopkins University and alumni ambassador for the Critical Language Scholarship program, Naimul sees the enormous potential for Lo-Fi Language Learning trainees to become a source of cultural exchange and competency for global youth. By learning about the diversity of peoples and dialects in the United States, children will be better equipped for engagement with people from all walks of life. Naimul will apply his Mandarin language proficiency to tailor their arts education lessons for Taiwanese youth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdc3053a67adb51b92f61ee/1615445681021-253VA395UI2PPZEL3XVN/uri_mr1606280384813+%282%29.png Our Team - Eileen Calub, EFL teaching assistant Eileen Calub is a TEFL-certified English teacher and a lifelong language lover eager to assist Lo-Fi Language Learning trainees in completing Bridge-TEFL coursework. 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