About the Author

Kate Singleton has been working in the adult education field for 16 years. She has been an adult ESOL instructor with the Arlington Education and Employment Program (REEP) and Fairfax County Adult and Community Education (ACE) in Virginia. She has been researching and developing materials on health literacy for adult literacy learners for several years after noticing the kinds of difficulties her beginning literacy learners were experiencing with health and health care. Currently Kate is writing curriculum for ACE, writing and presenting teacher trainings, and pursuing a masters degree in clinical social work at Virginia Commonwealth University. She also counsels women living with HIV/AIDS at the Whitman-Walker Clinic of Northern Virginia. Kate plans to continue to counsel adults on health-related challenges and to examine the potential for increased collaboration between the adult education, health care and social work fields.