Lin Sensei was raised in Aichi, Japan until she was seventeen years old, and then sent to a boarding high school in Northfield, MA.  She attended a liberal arts junior college in Massachusetts, then the Berklee College of Music in Boston, majoring in song writing.  Before teaching, she worked for thirteen years with several international corporations in California, providing customer service in Japanese and then taught Japanese to fourth and seventh graders for one year at the Monterey Bay Charter School in Pacific Grove before relocating to the Seattle area. Lin Sensei joined Three Cedars in 2004.