Masumi Hori

Masumi Hori is dean of Mori no Ike - Hackensack, the Japanese Language Village. Masumi has been with Concordia Language Villages for 15 years and has wored in various positions including credit teacher and assistant dean. He has also worked at and led Japanese Village Weekends.

Masumi earned his B.A. in fine arts at Jamestown (N.D.) College and his M.Ed. in second languages and culture education at the University of Minnesota. Masumi is a native speaker of Japanese and a citizen of Japan.

Masumi is in his third year teaching at Eastview High School in Apple Valley, Minn. He currently teaches Japanese and community education for adults for the district, and he has also taught ESL.