At Ohio State University, Emma Hadiana Cahyani studies teaching and learning for a master’s degree.

She is an English and BIPA (teaching Indonesian as a second language) teacher at the Language Institute of Universitas Sanata Dharma (USD) in Yogyakarta, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English.

After completing her Fulbright award, she plans to apply what she learns in language pedagogy, curriculum, and learning materials development at USD, her home institution.