Vandana Bajaj is currently the Assistant Director at the Princeton Center for Language Study, where she leads all strategic initiatives related to less-commonly-taught language teaching and learning, including external proficiency testing for the undergraduate language requirement and cross-institutional collaborations for live synchronous courses through videoconferencing.  Prior to joining PCLS, she served as a dean’s assistant in the Office of the Dean of the College. 

Vandana completed her Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics from Rutgers University in 2016, where she got a taste of administrative work through brief part-time stints doing data entry for the Faculty Survey database and providing on-site logistical help for running the Mandela Washington Fellowship program.  In a previous life, Vandana worked as a CompTIA-certified technical trainer in the corporate private sector.