Christopher Livaccari now teaches Chinese and Japanese languages at the College of Staten Island High School for International Studies in New York. He was deputy director of the Tokyo American Center at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan from 2000 to 2002, in addition to postings in Shanghai, China, and Okinawa, Japan. He is a graduate of Columbia University, with advanced degrees from the University of Chicago and New York University, and has studied Japanese in Yokohama, Japan, and taught English and studied Chinese in China’s Shandong province.