Ambreen Adnan holds an M.A. in Urdu-Hindi Language Pedagogy (Kean University), a certification in TESOL (Westchester Community College), and M.A in Economics (PU, Pakistan). She has successfully completed various certificates and non-certificate professional development workshops conducted by ACTFL, NYU Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Columbia University and NHLRC. Over the years, from an an elementary school teacher she became an Urdu instructor to  heritage language students from elementary, middle, and high schools  in varied educational settings, such as STARTALK summer camp intensive, heritage school, and online. She served as a language resource person and instructional assistant for the three levels of Urdu classes during the fall semester of 2019 at NYU, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

She is a language teacher familiar with the fundamental principles and theories of teaching a second language or/and heritage language in a diverse classroom of students, with varied ages and linguistic profiles. She understands the sociolinguistic needs of heritage language learners and the issues of assimilation and adaption to a new culture, the loss of cultural identity, and linguistic barriers to access information, of a second language learner in the U.S.