I help adults make a new language their own.

Designed, built and shipped a Danish-grammar learning app: daily AI-generated exercises across 13 grammar topics, an AI teacher that explains every mistake, and DU2/DU3 modultest training with AI feedback — free to use, with classes for teachers.

Taught Danish to adult immigrants and refugees within Denmark's national language-education programme, at every level and to students aged 18 to 87, guiding them from arrival through to certified exam level. Served as elected staff representative (tillidsrepræsentant) for my colleagues.

Six years at a residential adult-education college (folkehøjskole), joining as a teacher and ending as vice principal. Taught language, philosophy and the humanities in Danish and English, mainly to international students. Secured funding from EU, Nordic and private sources — including Erasmus+, the European Solidarity Corps and NordPlus — wrote the applications, and reported to funders, municipalities and ministries. Built a Nordic-Baltic cultural-exchange project and partnerships across Europe and Latin America. Managed staff, curriculum development and day-to-day operations.

Mentored first-year university students into academic life as a tutor — and, before that, kept good company behind the bar at one of Odense's classic pubs.

The state-certified qualification required to teach Danish as a second language to adults in Denmark.

An area-studies degree in the politics, culture and society of a world region — thesis on music and cultural movements during the 2010–11 Arab Spring.

The academic study of belief, culture and society — thesis on new religious movements and the discourse around “brainwashing,” from the 1950s to the 1990s.