Laura Blakney

Laura was born in Mexico City, Mexico but she grew up in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She got her B.A. degree in Teaching Spanish & English as a Second Language from the Universidad Autonoma de Morelos in 2002.

Laura started her professional career as a Spanish teacher working in a variety of language schools and companies across Mexico and in the United States. In 2008 she became the academic director and co-founder of the Querétaro Language School (QLS) and helped create all the teaching material and manage all the teachers in the organization.

Six months after starting to work at QLS she also came on as the Academic Director and co-founder of Live Lingua and became a pioneer in developing language teaching curriculums in the online space. She left her job at QLS after selling the school in 2012 and started working full-time at Live Lingua.

As the Academic Director, her primary focus at Live Lingua is on finding and working with the best language teachers for each of Live Lingua’s language offerings. She personally interviews each teacher that is hired to make sure they are up to the standards of the company and then provides ongoing support and training to all the teachers on the Live Lingua staff.