OUR TEAM

Teresa Jacobson

Founder and Director

Teresa Jacobson, founder and director of AVENIDA, was born and raised in London, England and has more than 20 years of experience in business management and international language training.

After locating in Spain in 2002 and due to client demand, she created AVENIDA with her passion to offer a professional world of experience combined with motivation, flexibility, equality and proven values in a tailor-made service for satisfied customers throughout the years.

Teresa continues to enjoy teaching both face-to-face and online and gives workshops specialising in international business as well as English courses at all levels.

Sofia Lily

Operations Coordinator

Sofia Lily is our lovely teacher and Operations Coordinator. Born in London and brought up bilingual in English and Spanish, Sofia Lily graduated in Pedagogy and is a Cambridge qualified English teacher. For the last 4 years she has been running her own online language school as well

She loves teaching at all levels to all ages and specialises in exam preparation. Her patient and friendly manner makes her a popular educator and a responsible and valuable team member.

Sofia is also a cualified Zumba teacher and runs her own lively classes in her free time, combining teaching and exercise as an excellent source of motivation!

Dorien

Academic Manager

Here we have our teacher Dorien, who teaches in our academy and online classes and who is originally from Belgium and speaks three languages. She has been working in Spain as an English teacher for more than 6 years and quickly settled . Dorien is a very friendly and creative person and shows her creativity in class as her dynamic classes are a lot of fun and she loves to teach the language and motivate her students, no matter what age they are.

She says she loves to see how the students improve and it gives her great satisfaction to help them every step of the way.

In her spare time, apart from travelling, she continues to be creative with her favourite hobby of sewing, where she designs, sews and models her original and perfectly finished garments.