Yolmita Deni is currently teaching Indonesian at the University of Pennsylvania.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics education from Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, with an LPDP (Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education Agency) scholarship, and her master’s in education from the University of Adelaide, Australia. She has two years of experience as an English teacher at Sumba Hospitality Foundation, Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara.