Deborah Holland is a history teacher at D’Evelyn High School in the Denver metro area, and has also taught in Arizona and Venezuela. She currently teaches Eastern Civilizations, which includes a three-week unit on Korea, and AP Psychology. She first learned about sijo at the 2014 Korean Academy for Educators Seminar in Los Angeles and has taught it ever since. She has shared her enthusiasm of sijo by teaching other educators about the poetry at an NCTA workshop, a Korean War Legacy workshop, and at the National Council of Social Studies. Besides her work with the Sejong Cultural Society, she is a teacher fellow with Qatar Foundation International, which promotes education about the Middle East, as well as with the Engaging Eurasia Teacher Fellowship through Harvard.