Dr. Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth, Ph.D., serves as the Hebrew Language Delegate for NYSABE. A native Yiddish speaker dominant in English, she is also bilingual in Spanish and Hebrew—both heritage languages—and is currently studying Mandarin Chinese. Born in Brooklyn, she comes from a richly multicultural family with roots in Argentina, Puerto Rico, Panama, Canada, and Wales.
Dr. Ebsworth began her career in Brooklyn as a licensed TESOL and Bilingual (Spanish/English) Early Childhood Teacher working with Emergent Multilingual Learners. She later taught English learners and students at risk at Rutgers University–Newark before joining New York University, where she has educated language teachers since 1979.
A highly decorated educator, Dr. Ebsworth is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NYSABE Gladys Correa Memorial Award, NYSABE Bilingual Teacher of the Year, the AERA Bilingual Education Research Lifetime Achievement Award, the NABE Lifelong Bilingual Educator Award, the NYU Steinhardt Teaching Excellence Award, and the NYSTESOL Outstanding Teacher Award. She co-developed the online course Action Through Words: Learning English While Learning About the United Nations and is co-editor (with Dr. Theresa Austin) of the forthcoming volume Towards Building Antiracist Communities: A Focus on Intersectionalities (Multilingual Matters).
Dr. Ebsworth is the Academic Director and co founder of NYU’s English program for families of international students, co-chair of the MLL Think Tank, and organizer of the annual Research and Evaluation Institutes at NABE. She also serves on editorial boards for several journals, including The Bilingual Research Journal, The Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, HOW Journal (Colombia), and the NYS TESOL Journal advisory board.
Her research interests include technology in second language pedagogy, academic writing, heritage language preservation, language variation, and intercultural pragmatics. She has consulted for the United Nations on English-learning initiatives aligned with global peace and health efforts and is currently exploring the impact of AI on bilingual education.
Dr. Ebsworth’s media appearances include the film The Three R’s, the television show Public Voice Salon, and NABE TV.
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