Who We Are


Division Officers

Vice President 

Detra D. Johnson

University of Houston

ddjohns6@central.uh.edu

Secretary 

Nakia M. Gray-Nicolas

Queens College, CUNY

nakia.graynicolas@qc.cuny.edu

Equity, Inclusion, and Action Committee Co-Chairs (2025-2026)

Chair

Liliana Castrellon 

San Jose State University

liliana.castrellon@sjsu.eduliliana.castrellon@sjsu.edu

Co-Chair

Amaarah De Cuir
 

Members

Cailen O'Shea, Chy McGhee, Debalina Maitra, David Osworth, Jerry Maraia, Miyoshi Juergensen, Shannon M. Calderone, Ursula Aldana, Virginia Downing
 

Early-Career Scholar Committee (2023-2028)

Co-Chair, 2023-2026

Lolita Tabron

University of Denver

Lolita.Tabron@du.edu

Co-Chair, 2024-2027

Se Woong Lee

University of Missouri-Columbia

sewoong.lee@missouri.edu

Co-Chair, 2025-2028

Elizabeth (Liz) Gil

Fordham University 

egil1@fordham.edu

Mid-Career Scholar Committee

Virginia Snodgrass-Rangel

Daniel Liou

 

Graduate Student Representatives (2024-2025)

 

Senior Representative

Bobbie Faith Garcia

University of Texas – San Antonio

Roberta.garcia@my.utsa.edu

 

Junior Representative

Ben Lebovitz 

University of Wisconsin-Madison

balebovitz@wisc.edu

 

Division A Newsletter Team (2025-2026)

Co-Editors:

Alison Wilson 

University of Houston

aswilso6@Central.UH.EDU

 

 

Meagan Richard  

Old Dominion University 

 
 

Co-Associate Editors:

Cynthia Angelica Gallardo  

Paul Campbell 

 

Program Chair (2024-2025)

Melissa Martinez

Texas State University

Mm224@txstate.edu

Program Co-Chair (2024-2025)

 

Kelly Brown 

Lamar University 

kbrown76@lamar.edu

 

Section Chairs (2024-2025)

 

Section 1: Leadership

Co-Chair

Priya Goel La Londe

University of Hong Kong

pgll@hku.hk  

Co-Chair

Jia Grace Liang 

Kansas State University 

gliang15@k-state.edu 

 

Section 2: School Organization & Effects

 

Leslie Locke

Minnesota State University  

leslie.locke@mnsu.edu

 

Section 3: School and District Improvement

 

Bryan VanGronigen

University of Delaware


 

Section 4: School Contexts and Communities

 

Gwendolyn Baxley

University of Buffalo

gsbaxley@buffalo.edu

 

Section 5: Leadership Preparation Development

 Jamon H. Flowers

 

University of Georgia 

Jamon.Flowers@uga.edu

 

Webmaster

Jeremy Visone

Central Connecticut State University

visone@ccsu.edu