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Board Member – Dr. Donna Alvermann, GA, USA

Bio: Dr. Donna Alvermann is a University of Georgia Appointed Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education. She also holds an endowed professorship, The Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education. A former classroom teacher, her research focuses on young people’s digital literacies and use of popular media. She is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World; Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives (3rd ed.); Adolescents’ Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture; and Bring It to Class: Unpacking Pop Culture in Literacy Learning. Most recently, she helped in designing an interactive website to learn how a community of researchers and researched objects can push boundaries associated with creating and disseminating “original” work and remixes online using a Creative Commons license.

Board Member – Dr. Kathleen Bailey, CA, USA

Bio: Dr. Kathleen Bailey is a professor of Applied Linguistics at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). She is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of TIRF – The International Research Foundation for English Language Education, as well as President of the Foundation – offices she has held since September 2009. In addition, she has served as the President of both the International TESOL Association and the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Previously she served on the TOEFL Research Committee. She has been honored as a recipient of the James E. Alatis Award for Service to TESOL and the Heinle Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a recipient of the Leslie Eliason Excellence in Teaching Award, and a two-time recipient of the Allen Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2021 she received the Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award from the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Dr. Bailey’s research interests include teacher education, second language acquisition, language assessment and leadership in language education.

Board Member – Dr. Richard Beach, MN, USA

Bio: Dr. Richard Beach is a professor emeritus of English education at the University of Minnesota. A past president of the Literacy Research Association, Professor Beach has authored or co-authored numerous books, including Teaching Literature to Adolescents, Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and Other Digital Tools; Teaching Literature to Adolescents: A Web-Based Guide to Links and Activities, Inquiry-Based English Instruction: Engaging Students in Literature and Life; and High School Students’ Competing Social Worlds: Negotiating Identities and Allegiances through Responding to Multicultural Literature. He is also the organizing editor for the annual “Annotated Bibliography of Research” for Research in the Teaching of English. He is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Commission on Media and was awarded the 2009 Computers in Reading Research Award from the International Reading Association (IRA).

Board Member – Dr. Kelly Chandler-Olcott, NY, USA

Bio: Dr. Kelly Chandler-Olcott is Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and the interim dean of the School of Education. A former high school English and social studies teacher, she has taught English methods and content literacy courses to secondary and K-12 education majors for nearly 25 years. She has also served SOE as associate dean for research, chair of the Reading & Language Arts department, and coordinator of English Education programs. Dr.  Chandler-Olcott has published six books and more than 120 book chapters, articles, and editorials. Her scholarship has been recognized with the International Literacy Association’s Computers in Reading Research Award (2019) and the Divergent Book Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies Research (2021). She served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Literacy Research Association from 2010 to 2013 and co-edited Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy with her RLA colleague Kathleen A. Hinchman from 2015-2021.

Board Member – Dr. Melanie Davenport, GA, USA

Bio: Dr. Melanie Davenport is a professor of art at Georgia State University. She served on the World Council of the International Society for Education through Art from 2008 to 2011 and has been active in the United States Society for Education through Art and the National Art Education Association throughout her career. Dr. Davenport is a previous elementary art teacher who now teaches elementary methods courses as well as graduate courses on research, history, and culture in art education. Her research interests have focused on international-comparative and intercultural approaches to art education, media literacy, visual culture, and indigenous education. From 2007 to 2009, she led visual communication workshops with indigenous youth in Mexico, toward the production of stop-motion animated shorts that present their traditional stories in their own languages. She has studied middle school art education in Japan and post-colonial curriculum reform in settings around the world. Her current research explores creative aging and art education. Dr. Davenport has an extensive record of presentations and publications at regional, national and international levels.

Board Member – Dr. Amy Seely Flint, GA, USA

Bio: Dr. Amy Seely Flint is a professor in the College of Education and Human Development  and currently serves  as Chair of the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at the University of Louisville, where she teaches literacy based courses in a variety of graduate and undergraduate programs. Dr. Flint’s research interests include early literacy development, culturally sustaining pedagogy in literacy, critical literacy in elementary classrooms, and teacher professional development. She is Principal Investigator on a USAID funded international grant, which focuses on teacher professional development and integration of digital technologies into literacy learning. Her work in teacher professional development and literacy recently took her South Africa, where she engaged in a three-year project with primary grade teachers near Cape Town. The project focused on building children’s literacy skills and enhancing teachers’ understanding of literacy development. She serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Teacher Education and Teacher and Teacher Education.

Board Member – Dr. Patrick K. Freer, GA, USA

Bio: Dr. Patrick K. Freer is Professor of Music at Georgia State University and former Visiting Professor at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria). Dr. Freer has conducted or presented in 39 states and 29 countries, including recent guest conducting for multiple All-State and Divisional ACDA Honor Choirs, more than 75 professional and/or honor choirs in the USA and abroad, and the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra (Colombia). His most recent guest conducting and lecturing has taken him to Austria, Ecuador, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden, and to the US states of Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah. Dr. Freer is Editor of the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, past editor of Music Educators Journal and has served on Editorial Committees member for many national and international journals. He is a member of the ACDA National Standing Committee for Research & Publications. He has authored 3 textbooks, a DVD series for teachers, an extensive internet video series for middle school singers, 19 book chapters/sections, and over 130 articles in most of the field’s leading  journals.

Board Member – Dr. Elfrieda “Freddy” Hiebert, WI, USA

Bio: Dr. Elfrieda “Freddy” Hiebert has had a long career as a literacy educator, first as a teacher’s aide and teacher of primary-level students in California and, subsequently, as a teacher educator and researcher at the universities of Kentucky, Colorado-Boulder, Michigan, and California-Berkeley. Dr. Hiebert’s work examines early childhood development, teacher development, writing, and children’s literature. The main thrust of her work addresses literacy learning among at-risk youth in American classrooms. She is currently the CEO and President of TextProject, Inc., an agency  dedicated to bringing beginning and struggling readers to high levels of literacy through a variety of strategies and tools used for reading instruction. Among the awards that Hiebert has received in recognition of her contributions as a researcher and educator are the School of Education Alumni Achievement Award (2000),  William S. Gray Citation of Merit award for outstanding contributions to the field of reading from the International Literacy Association (2008), election to the Reading Hall of Fame (2008), and selection as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (2011).

Board Member – Dr. Kathleen A. Hinchman, NY, USA

Bio: Dr. Kathleen A. Hinchman is Professor Emerita of Reading and Language Arts Education at Syracuse University, where she taught literacy methods courses and doctoral seminars and was as an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Education. A former middle school teacher, Dr. Hinchman is a  Past President of the Central New York Reading Council and has served on the boards of director of the Literacy Research Association (formerly the National Reading Conference), and ProLiteracy Worldwide. Her scholarship has considered literacy-related middle school reform and teachers’ and students’ perspectives on literacy instruction. Dr. Hinchman’s work has been widely published in journals and authored several books, including  Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives and Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy Instruction and Teaching Adolescents who Struggle with Reading. She is a member of the Reading Hall of Fame.

Board Member – Dr. Etta R. Hollins, MO, USA

Bio: Dr. Etta R. Hollins is Professor Emerita in the Division of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies and the Kauffman Endowed Chair for Urban Teacher Education at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Her scholarship has focused on the preparation of teachers for urban and underserved students, on promoting dialogue among all stakeholders and policy makers on professional standards for classroom practices, and on approaches to assessing the readiness of candidates for professional teaching in classrooms serving students from diverse cultural and experiential backgrounds. She is a member of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP)’s Accreditation Council, and is on the advisory boards for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, the Salish Kootenai College teacher preparation program, and edTPA. In 2016, she received both the Outstanding Book Award from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education and the Legacy Award from Division K of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She was inducted as a Fellow of AERA in 2018.

Board Member – Dr. Susan Hynds, NY, USA

Bio: Dr. Susan Hynds is a Professor Emerita in the School of Education and the Reading and Language Arts Center at Syracuse University. Her areas of research interests include literacy and the arts, progressive teaching methods, new literacies, and the social influences on the reading processes of adolescent readers. She has published numerous influential journal articles and book chapters on adolescent literacy development and has authored seven books on literacy teaching, including Language Arts and Literacy in the Middle Grades, Teaching Literature to Adolescents, The Language of Literature: World Literature : California Edition, and The Language of Literature: British Literature, and On the Brink: Negotiating Literature and Life with Adolescents. She has held leadership positions in the National Council of Teachers of English, the Conference on English Education, the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, and the American Educational Research Association. She is a winner of the NCTE Richard A. Meade Award for outstanding research in English Education.

Board Member – Dr. Rita L. Irwin, BC, Canada

Bio: Dr. Rita L. Irwin is a Professor of Art Education and Curriculum Studies, and Associate Dean of Teacher Education, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Rita is an artist, researcher, and teacher deeply committed to the arts and education, embodied in the methodology of A/R/Tography. Her research interests have spanned in-service art education, teacher education, sociocultural issues, and curriculum practices across K-12 and informal learning settings. She is the Past President of the International Society for Education through Art. She has received numerous awards for her teaching, service and scholarship including Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association in the USA, the National Higher Education Educator Award, the Ted T. Aoki Award for Distinguished Service in Canadian Curriculum Studies, Canadian Art Teacher of the Year Award, the Killam Award for Teaching Excellence, the Murray Elliot Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education from the University of British Columbia, and the Elliot Eisner Lifetime Achievement Award (NAEA).

Board Member – Dr. Jacqueline Jackson, USA

Bio: Dr. Jacqueline Jackson has worked in the field of Special Education for over 30 years. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Speech and Hearing Science, Reading, and Language and Literacy Education. Jackson is also certified in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Special Education Adapted Curriculum. As CEO of Jacqueline Jackson Services Inc., Dr. Jackson provides consultative services to individuals seeking or meeting special education eligibility.

Board Member – D. L. Jordan, USA

Bio: Major Danny L. Jordan has been with the DeKalb County Police Department in DeKalb County, Georgia since 1998. During his career, he has served the public in many capacities, most recently as the Commander of the department’s Motor Unit and Traffic Specialist Unit. During his long career, Jordan was also a frequent speaker at community events, including, in 2019,  the “Not in My Dekalb” program, which aimed to address domestic violence in Dekalb County. Since March of 2021, Major Jordan has served as a member of DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Reserves Unit, a non-profit organization of mostly retired law enforcement officers from various agencies who provide support services and volunteer for community relations activities at the sheriff’s office. In June of 2021, Major Danny L. Jordan was wounded while serving in this capacity. He holds degrees in criminal justice, human resources, and marriage and family counseling.

Board Member – Dr. Donald J. Leu, CT, USA

Bio: Dr. Donald J. Leu is the John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and Technology at the University of Connecticut. He holds a joint appointment in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Psychology in the Neag School of Education. A graduate of Michigan State, Harvard, and Berkeley, he is an international authority on literacy education, especially the new skills and strategies required to read, write, and learn with Internet technologies and the best instructional practices that prepare students for these new literacies. Don directs the New Literacies Research Lab in the Neag School of Education. He is a member of the Reading Hall of Fame, Past President of the Literacy Research Association, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association. He edited the Handbook of Research on New Literacies (Erlbaum, 2008) and has more than 100 research publications and seventeen books on topics that range from the new literacies of online research and comprehension to teacher education and phonemic awareness. He is a frequent speaker at major conferences and has given keynote addresses in Europe, Australia, Asia, South America, and North America and he delivered the Jeanne S. Chall Annual Lecture in Reading at Harvard University in 2016.

Board Member – Dr. Tony Mahon, UK

Bio: Dr. Tony Mahon is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education and Development at Canterbury Christ Church University, England and Faculty Director for International Development. He also serves as a consultant for World Bank funded teacher education development projects in Palestine. He previously worked as a teacher and teacher educator in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Philippines, Japan and Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong, he played a leading role in National Curriculum reform for English in Primary Schools and co-led an influential five-year reading literacy research and development project. His current academic interests include the pedagogy of English as an additional language, multicultural education and international development education. In 2018, Dr. Mahon and his team won the Times Higher Education (THE) Award for International Impact for his work in Palestine. Working in collaboration with the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education and six universities in Palestine, the Teacher Education Improvement Project aims to enhance the quality of teacher training.

Board Member – Dr. Christine Sleeter, CA, USA

Bio: Dr. Christine E. Sleeter, Ph.D. is an education activist and Professor Emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. She has served as a visiting professor at several universities, most recently University of Colorado at Boulder. As an expert in her field, Dr. Sleeter is a much sought-after speaker and the author of more than 22 books and 80 blog posts. Her works include Power, Teaching, and Teacher Education (Peter Lang).  She has helped hundreds of teachers become better teachers of the schools’ culturally diverse students. She has also served as the Vice President of Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) of the American Educational Research Association and as President of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Her work primarily focuses on multicultural education, preparation of teachers for culturally diverse schools, and anti-racism.

Board Member – Dr. M. Alexis Scott, GA, USA

Bio: Dr. M. Alexis Scott has had a long career as a journalist, executive and community leader.  After a twenty-two year career with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Cox Enterprises, Inc, where she worked her way up from reporter to vice president of community affairs at the and then director of diversity at Cox, Scott became involved in the inner workings of the Atlanta Daily World. Scott was also active in nonprofit organizations such as St. Jude’s Recovery Center; Kenny Leon’s True Colors theater company; and serving as a board member of Atlanta History Center; the High Museum of Art; the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau; and Central Atlanta Progress. She was part of the executive team that opened the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. Scott has received many awards and honors, including the 2004 Imperial Court Daughters of Isis Hall of Fame Award; Phenomenal Woman Award; an honorary doctor of humane letters from Argosy University in Atlanta in 2003; and a 2001 Citizen of the Year Award from Southwest Hospital and Medical Center.

Board Member – Dr. Shelley Wong, VA, USA

Bio: Dr. Shelley Wong, Multilingual Multicultural Education, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A. is author of Dialogic Approaches to TESOL: Where the Ginkgo Tree Grows, Taylor & Francis and with Ilham Nasser and Lawrence N. Berlin co-editor of Examining education, media and dialogue under occupation: The case of Palestine and Israel. Bristol, U.K.: Multilingual Matters. A former President of TESOL International, she received her MA TESL at UCLA and Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics at Columbia Teachers College. Dr. Wong became involved in the peace movement in high school when she joined Yalim (Daughters of Peace) at the Los Angeles Hollywood Los Feliz Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles and attended demonstrations against the war in Vietnam. She was a founding member of the Asian American Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament in New York in the 1980s.  Most recently she was a Fulbright Scholar at Birzeit University in the Occupied West Bank, Palestine.

Board Member – Dr. Gladys Yarbrough, GA, USA, Founding Editor

Bio: Dr. Gladys Yarbrough is the Collaboration and Resources for Encouraging and Supporting Transformations in Education (CREST-Ed) project director at Georgia State University. Her research focuses on teacher beliefs and online learning and developing effective community partnerships. Yarbrough teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy, specifically, reading and children’s literature. She has been active in community service in her neighborhood and at Georgia State University. She currently serves as a member of the board of directors at The Study Hall, Inc. and was the faculty advisor of Omicron Gamma Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society for the College of Education, Georgia State University. She was also the co-founder of Ubiquity, an online journal of literature, literacy, and the arts, and served on the executive committee of the International Women’s Think Tank in Georgia

Board Member – Dr. Enid Zimmerman, IN, USA

Bio: Dr. Enid Zimmerman is Professor Emerita of Art Education and current Coordinator of Gifted and Talented Programs at the Indiana University School of Education. Her research focuses on talent development, art teacher education, feminist art education, leadership and mentoring, global art education, and art education curriculum and policy issues. The author, co-author, and editor of many articles and books, Dr. Zimmerman has just co-edited two in-press volumes: Connecting Creativity Research and Practice in Art Education and Cultural Sensitivity in a Global World. She has recently received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Lecture in Art Education at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and the Davis Lecture in Art Education at North Texas University. In 2014 she was awarded the National Art Education Association Elliot Eisner Lifetime Achievement Award. Through the Prism: Looking at the Spectrum of Writings of Enid Zimmerman (NAEA), summarizes her influences on art education through her own contributions and those of her former students and colleagues.