Our Team
Afsoun Yazdian
Afsoun Yazdian is Founder and CEO of GoGoLingo.com. Inspired by her own experiences growing up speaking Farsi and English and studying Latin, Hebrew, Spanish and Portuguese, Afsoun created Gogo Lingo with the dream of educating, entertaining and creating connections between children around the world.
Prior to founding GoGoLingo.com-which began as a school project during Afsoun's years at Stanford University earning her MBA and MA of Education-Afsoun received a B.S. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. She also spent seven years working in film development at various companies including Creative Artists Agency, Paramount Pictures, RKO Pictures and Sony-based production company Bedlam Media. One of Afsoun's favorite experiences was working in the International Strategy Division at Sesame Workshop where she developed a strategy for Sesame English, a multimedia program that introduces non-English-speaking children to conversational English through comedy, physical action and music.
An avid traveler, Afsoun has visited forty-four countries to date and still occasionally delights in the thrill of jumping on hotel beds like she did when she was a child. When she's not traveling (or working long hours), you'll find her dancing in Los Angeles with her Brazilian husband Patrick, playing cards with her grandparents and remembering fondly her childhood days when she had a scheduled naptime.
Afsoun Yazdian is Founder and CEO of GoGoLingo.com. Inspired by her own experiences growing up speaking Farsi and English and studying Latin, Hebrew, Spanish and Portuguese, Afsoun created Gogo Lingo with the dream of educating, entertaining and creating connections between children around the world.
Prior to founding GoGoLingo.com-which began as a school project during Afsoun's years at Stanford University earning her MBA and MA of Education-Afsoun received a B.S. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. She also spent seven years working in film development at various companies including Creative Artists Agency, Paramount Pictures, RKO Pictures and Sony-based production company Bedlam Media. One of Afsoun's favorite experiences was working in the International Strategy Division at Sesame Workshop where she developed a strategy for Sesame English, a multimedia program that introduces non-English-speaking children to conversational English through comedy, physical action and music.
An avid traveler, Afsoun has visited forty-four countries to date and still occasionally delights in the thrill of jumping on hotel beds like she did when she was a child. When she's not traveling (or working long hours), you'll find her dancing in Los Angeles with her Brazilian husband Patrick, playing cards with her grandparents and remembering fondly her childhood days when she had a scheduled naptime.
Jason Leon
Jason Leon is Founder & COO of GoGoLingo.com. He is an internet veteran who began his career at Neopets, Inc., where he was instrumental in building the company from its infancy into a 160 million dollar corporation. After the sale of Neopets in 2005, he founded his own web development firm which was later acquired by animation powerhouse Mike Young Productions, LLC. A founding member of both Comcast's Kabillion, LLC, and the BBMMO MrTiki.com, Jason believes that information should be delivered in compelling and interesting new ways and is thrilled to bring his experience and creative palette to the team.
When Jason's not busy developing video games, playing music and changing the world, you just might find him still playing in the mud like he used to as a kid, though thankfully he can now clean under his fingernails all by himself.
Jason Leon is Founder & COO of GoGoLingo.com. He is an internet veteran who began his career at Neopets, Inc., where he was instrumental in building the company from its infancy into a 160 million dollar corporation. After the sale of Neopets in 2005, he founded his own web development firm which was later acquired by animation powerhouse Mike Young Productions, LLC. A founding member of both Comcast's Kabillion, LLC, and the BBMMO MrTiki.com, Jason believes that information should be delivered in compelling and interesting new ways and is thrilled to bring his experience and creative palette to the team.
When Jason's not busy developing video games, playing music and changing the world, you just might find him still playing in the mud like he used to as a kid, though thankfully he can now clean under his fingernails all by himself.
Dylan Squires
Dylan Squires is Founder and CTO of GoGoLingo.com. With over six years of experience developing games and applications for the Internet, Dylan is also Co-founder of MrTiki.com, forgetster.com, an online game portal community and bbmmo.com, an online multiplayer game portal and review site. Dylan was CTO of adver-gaming start up Adupteyshun, and Founder of Drunkduck.com (an online community for web comic creators) which he later sold to Platinum Studios. He began his career at Neopets where, among other projects, he built Millsberry.com for General Mills.
Whenever Dylan can escape from Lingoland, you'll find him pouring over games and books, dreaming about taking a trip to Japan and wishing he were still a kid so he could look forward to summer vacation.
Dylan Squires is Founder and CTO of GoGoLingo.com. With over six years of experience developing games and applications for the Internet, Dylan is also Co-founder of MrTiki.com, forgetster.com, an online game portal community and bbmmo.com, an online multiplayer game portal and review site. Dylan was CTO of adver-gaming start up Adupteyshun, and Founder of Drunkduck.com (an online community for web comic creators) which he later sold to Platinum Studios. He began his career at Neopets where, among other projects, he built Millsberry.com for General Mills.
Whenever Dylan can escape from Lingoland, you'll find him pouring over games and books, dreaming about taking a trip to Japan and wishing he were still a kid so he could look forward to summer vacation.
Sarah Ramert
Sarah Ramert is our Flash Artist and Animator. Before she started bringing Lingoland to life, Sarah was creating art for online virtual worlds for kids. Previously, Sarah was an animator for Playhouse Disney's series Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?. Sarah's other projects include American Greetings' "Maryoku Yummy", "Doodle Dee" and "Freaky Robots". She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Savannah College of Art and Design.
With her passion for art books, she's glad she can earn a living drawing and doodling. (Those books sure can get expensive!) If she can muster any free time, she'll spend it with her other great loves: video games, her family in Texas and her boyfriend.
Sarah Ramert is our Flash Artist and Animator. Before she started bringing Lingoland to life, Sarah was creating art for online virtual worlds for kids. Previously, Sarah was an animator for Playhouse Disney's series Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?. Sarah's other projects include American Greetings' "Maryoku Yummy", "Doodle Dee" and "Freaky Robots". She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Savannah College of Art and Design.
With her passion for art books, she's glad she can earn a living drawing and doodling. (Those books sure can get expensive!) If she can muster any free time, she'll spend it with her other great loves: video games, her family in Texas and her boyfriend.
David Randall
Dave Randall is Gogo Lingo's Musical Maestro. A musician, producer and composer for over fifteen years, Dave has contributed to multi-million-selling albums by Grammy Award-winning artist Dido and has toured the world a number of times performing with UK dance act Faithless. His own critically acclaimed albums released under the name Slovo feature international collaborations with artists including Iceland's Emiliana Torrini, West Africa's Maezah and US jazz legend Max Roach. The global collaborations continued when Dave was invited to appear alongside Baaba Maal, Michael Stipe, the Mahotella Queens, Neneh Cherry and others, in the studio and on stage, as part of the 1 Giant Leap project. He has also composed music for television and film including, together with Sudan's Emmanuel Jal, the score for the feature length documentary Rebuilding Hope.
When he is not traveling, Dave often runs music workshops in South London where he lives with his Australian partner. His home and studio are located in one of the most ethnically diverse parts of the UK where over 130 languages are spoken. In fact, if he had a few extra hours in the week, Dave would love to spend them learning Arabic, Yoruba and Portuguese to be able to chat with his friends and neighbors in their native languages for a change.
Dave Randall is Gogo Lingo's Musical Maestro. A musician, producer and composer for over fifteen years, Dave has contributed to multi-million-selling albums by Grammy Award-winning artist Dido and has toured the world a number of times performing with UK dance act Faithless. His own critically acclaimed albums released under the name Slovo feature international collaborations with artists including Iceland's Emiliana Torrini, West Africa's Maezah and US jazz legend Max Roach. The global collaborations continued when Dave was invited to appear alongside Baaba Maal, Michael Stipe, the Mahotella Queens, Neneh Cherry and others, in the studio and on stage, as part of the 1 Giant Leap project. He has also composed music for television and film including, together with Sudan's Emmanuel Jal, the score for the feature length documentary Rebuilding Hope.
When he is not traveling, Dave often runs music workshops in South London where he lives with his Australian partner. His home and studio are located in one of the most ethnically diverse parts of the UK where over 130 languages are spoken. In fact, if he had a few extra hours in the week, Dave would love to spend them learning Arabic, Yoruba and Portuguese to be able to chat with his friends and neighbors in their native languages for a change.
Elisa Niño-Sears
Elisa Niño-Sears is our Editor, Parenting Expert and Translation Superhero. An award-winning educator, Elisa has been teaching, consulting, writing and editing for over fifteen years. She's particularly proud of her work developing educational programs to support socio-economically disadvantaged kids and homeless families in her community, her work organizing Stanford University's Summit Series on Race in America, and her work training graduate students through her role as "mentor teacher" with Stanford's Teacher Education Program (STEP).
Elisa left the classroom in 2003 after giving birth to her first child-trading in Homer, Dickens and Shakespeare for Elmo, Curious George and Captain Underpants. Now a work-from-home mom, Elisa enjoyed working for Nickelodeon's ParentsConnect as Associate Editor and Host Parent from 2006-2007 and jumped at the chance to join the Bilingo team in 2009. Originally from Colombia, where dancing is a must, Elisa is fascinated by the challenge of teaching her kids to salsa with pride and committed to raising them to be bilingual in English and Spanish.
Elisa Niño-Sears is our Editor, Parenting Expert and Translation Superhero. An award-winning educator, Elisa has been teaching, consulting, writing and editing for over fifteen years. She's particularly proud of her work developing educational programs to support socio-economically disadvantaged kids and homeless families in her community, her work organizing Stanford University's Summit Series on Race in America, and her work training graduate students through her role as "mentor teacher" with Stanford's Teacher Education Program (STEP).
Elisa left the classroom in 2003 after giving birth to her first child-trading in Homer, Dickens and Shakespeare for Elmo, Curious George and Captain Underpants. Now a work-from-home mom, Elisa enjoyed working for Nickelodeon's ParentsConnect as Associate Editor and Host Parent from 2006-2007 and jumped at the chance to join the Bilingo team in 2009. Originally from Colombia, where dancing is a must, Elisa is fascinated by the challenge of teaching her kids to salsa with pride and committed to raising them to be bilingual in English and Spanish.
Michael Robles
Michael Robles is the voice of Gogo Lingo. A bilingual voice actor for countless cartoons, commercials and video games, Michael is also a veteran of San Francisco's voice acting school, Voicetrax and holds an Associates Degree from Fresno City College. You may have heard his voiceover artistry through his work on Transformers, Handy Manny's Green Team or Dirty Jobs. Or perhaps you've heard him before through his work as a reporter for Univision's news department. When he's not immersed in acting, you'll find Michael teaching Spanish to elementary students in an after-school enrichment program, playing baseball and dreaming about visiting the new Yankees stadium in the Big Apple.
Michael Robles is the voice of Gogo Lingo. A bilingual voice actor for countless cartoons, commercials and video games, Michael is also a veteran of San Francisco's voice acting school, Voicetrax and holds an Associates Degree from Fresno City College. You may have heard his voiceover artistry through his work on Transformers, Handy Manny's Green Team or Dirty Jobs. Or perhaps you've heard him before through his work as a reporter for Univision's news department. When he's not immersed in acting, you'll find Michael teaching Spanish to elementary students in an after-school enrichment program, playing baseball and dreaming about visiting the new Yankees stadium in the Big Apple.
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