UNIONDALE, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 9, 2025 / Marquis Who's Who honors Ellenda Wulfestieg for her excellence in English education. Ms. Wulfestieg is a respected professional rater and English educator at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). ETS is a premier nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization for pupils in grades K-12 and higher education. The organization administers international tests such as the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), which evaluates English proficiency across 11 different levels, from basic to advanced skills.

Ms. Wulfestieg is associated with TOEIC through ETS. Primarily working with students from Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, her responsibilities include grading pupils as they practice speaking English.

A Diverse Professional Background

Ms. Wulfestieg's professional journey spans multiple industries. Earlier in her career, she had the opportunity to work for NASA, and distinguished herself as the first person to successfully coordinate a daily nationwide noon meeting of NASA management personnel, known as the Noon Saloon, which tackled critical problems in the shuttle assembly and preflight programs. She considers her role at NASA one of the best jobs she has held throughout her career, largely because she was surrounded by intelligent people and felt the work challenged her. She remains in touch with new developments in this field, cheering the fact that more women are being accepted into NASA as astronauts and pilots.

Other positions Ms. Wulfestieg has held include time at the Museum of the American Indian in New York City, where she served as an ethnographic conservator. She also worked as an assistant librarian at the Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics Library at the University of California Berkeley.

In 1977, Ms. Wulfestieg furthered her education, becoming the first woman to graduate first in both field work and classroom work at the H.B. Zachry Company Electrical Apprenticeship School. Additionally, she was also the first woman to rise to the position of maintenance foreman at the Shell, Good Hope, Tenneco and Exxon refineries in the 1980s. She also became the first female maintenance superintendent at the Coastal Aruba Refining Co. in 1990.

Ms. Wulfestieg continued her education at the University of New Orleans, where she graduated, magna cum laude, with a bachelor's degree in general studies in 1983. She holds a certificate in archaeological conservation from the University of London. She also completed years of master level coursework at Yale University in archaeology.

As an educator, Ms. Wulfestieg's career spans various positions in the industry. From 2003 to 2010, she taught Integrated English Levels 1 through IV as an associate professor at Pierce College. She also spent time in Venezuela as an ESL (English as a second language) instructor for Better English between 1997 and 2002.

Professional Achievements

Ms. Wulfestieg has been recognized for her professional accomplishments. Notably, she was honored with a Washington State Governor's Award for Best Practices in Workplace Development in 2008. She credits her success to her intelligence, curiosity, tenacity, ambition and love of learning.

Beyond her professional work, Ms. Wulfestieg is a volunteer at both the Newberry County Humane Society and Percy's Angelic Cat Rescue. Looking to the future, she hopes to write a book about her life.

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