Chair (1 year term)
Maria R. Coady
Professor ESOL/Bilingual Education at the University of Florida
mcoady@coe.ufl.edu
Year term ends: 2021 (will become Past Chair 2021-22)

Program Chair (1 year term)
Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz
Associate Professor of Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences at the University of Houston
zaguirre-munoz@uh.edu
Year term ends: 2021 (will become Chair 2021-22)

Parliamentarian (3 year term)
María Cioè-Peña
Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair University
cioepenam@montclair.edu
Year term ends: 2023

Secretary/Treasurer (2 year term)
Davíd G. Martínez
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policies at the University of South Carolina-Columbia
dgmar@mailbox.sc.edu
(803)777-3084
Year term ends: 2022

 

Past Chair/Elections Coordinator (1 year term)
Verónica E. Valdez
Associate Professor of Education, Culture, & Society at the University of Utah
veronica.valdez@utah.edu
(801)587-7814
Year term ends: 2021

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Webmaster (3 year term)
Lyndsie M. Schultz
Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Missouri
schultzlm@missouri.edu
Year term ends: 2023

Advocacy Working Group

This new working group will engage in advocacy efforts related to matters of multilingual education, and to those we serve. The group is very important in today's "post-truth" era. We believe in the power of working together and would like to help our members share their advocacy efforts, as well as expand our reach by providing information on other possible advocacy routes at the local, state and federal levels.

Chair: Gumiko Monobe  
gmonobe@kent.edu

Mentoring Group

The Mentoring Working Group of the BER aims to support doctoral candidates and junior scholars by facilitating connections with more experienced and knowledgeable senior scholars, unveiling hidden discourses within the academy, and creating constructive discursive spaces for all to come together to continue to move the research in our field forward.

Chairs: Sandra Quiñones
quinoness@duq.edu

Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica
crodriguezmojica@scu.edu

 
Newsletter Group

The BER Newsletter Working Group aims to identify and share timely information to the members of the BER SIG at the local, national, and international levels. The newsletter reflects the linguistic and cultural diversity of the BER members and broader society, and works in collaboration with other SIG groups to build communication, collegiality, and collaborations across members.

Chair: Laura Hamman
Laura.Hamman@colorado.edu

Social Media Group

The Social Media Working Group of the BER works to using social media outlets, such as Facebook and Twitter, to serve the community of the BER. Specifically, our aims are to raise awareness of the good work members of the BER are doing and to increase communication, collegiality and collaborations across the BER community. We use social media to post news and information, as well as highlight policy and advocacy events that are of interest to our members.

Chair: Sandra Leu
sleuis@gmail.com