George has received his B. A. and M. A degrees in economics, and an M. S. in environmental management, from the University of San Francisco; master’s degree in education from Stanford University; and doctoral degree in education (organization and leadership) from the University of San Francisco.

Dr. Guim is the director of the Translation and Interpretation Program at the National Hispanic University.  He teaches linguistics, and translation and interpretation techniques; also anthropology, statistics, organizational behavior, business ethics and leadership, and teacher education courses.

His academic interest lies in the integration of anthropology, critical hermeneutics, linguistics, cognitive theory, biomechanics, and systems theory, and its application for organizational and individual learning in business and educational settings.His research projects include: (a) the dialectic between discourse and syntax, for reading-comprehension and writing/ composition pedagogy,  (b) the critical analysis and re-formulation of a leading/ following dance model as inter-semiotic system generalizable to all social couple-dances and with potential applications for robotics; and (c) fieldwork in the area of international/sustainable development with hill-tribe communities in Thailand, Burma, and Laos, in collaboration with Communication International (Richmond, CA).

Dr. Guim received the Faculty of the Year Award, in 2002 and 2005, for excellence in teaching linguistics, translation and interpretation, and business courses at the National Hispanic University