Executive Board of Directors
Anjela Hasheva- Piette
Founder & President
Anjela is a Founding Executive Director of ABSA. Anjela is also the Founder and Director of the Bulgarian School of Seattle. Through her leadership, the Bulgarian School of Seattle has formed partnerships with ALTA testing authorities, the Seal of Biliteracy and the Global Seal of Biliteracy Advisory Committees in many states across America. She develops official statistics on Bulgarian HL teaching and learning by collecting comprehensive data and pressing for inclusion of this data in official U.S. education statistics.
Anjela has served as the World Language Lead and adviser at undergraduate and graduate levels at City University of Seattle. She specializes in language acquisition, teacher education, and holds an MBA degree in Entrepreneurship. Her research areas are in heritage language education and language input processing.
She has taught French foreign language education courses in the United States and abroad.
Contact Anjela: ahasheva@absa-association.org
Ofeliya Tzitzkova
Vice-President & National Program Coordinator
Ofeliya is a Co-Founder of the Richmond Bulgarian Academy/ Bulgarian Sunday school "Kliment Ohridski" in Virginia and a Vice-principal of First Bulgarian School “Elin Pelin”, Texas, responsible for the Austin branch. She joined ABSA, impressed by the organization's goals, and shortly after she became its program coordinator. Ofeliya has a master's degree in Bulgarian law, with over 10 years of legal experience in Bulgaria, most of which as a government worker in municipal administration. In addition, she is a certified language teacher with over 9 years of teaching experience in Bulgarian Sunday schools in the US.
Education: 2021 - Advanced Paralegal Certificate, George Mason University, Arlington, VA; Master's degree in Bulgarian law, Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria; 135 Jan Amos Comenius High School, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Contact Ofeliya: ofeliya33@yahoo.com
Board of Honorary Advisors
The Association of Bulgarian Schools in America has an independent Board of Advisors made up of Bulgarian schools principals and faculty from across the country who advise and guide the program’s mission.
Bulgarian School "Patilansko Tzarstvo", Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Bulgarian School of Seattle, Washington,
First Bulgarian School "Elin Pelin", Austin, Texas