Ruth Naomi Nancy Wompere is pursuing a PhD at Ohio State University in foreign, second, and multilingual language education.

Ruth is a lecturer at Universitas Cenderawasih, Jayapura, Papua. She earned her bachelor’s in English teaching from Universitas Cenderawasih and a master’s in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) from Concordia University, Oregon, with a USAID-Academy for Educational Development (AED) scholarship.