Chair (1 year term) Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz Professor of Cognitive Science at UC-Merced zaguirre-munoz@ucmerced.edu Year term ends: 2022; (will become Past Chair 2022-23)
Program Chair (1 year term) Christina DeNicolo Associate Professor of Bilingual & Bicultural Education at Wayne State University christina.denicolo@wayne.edu Year term ends: 2022; will become Chair (2022 - 2023)
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) Maria R. Coady Professor ESOL/Bilingual Education at the University of Florida mcoady@coe.ufl.edu Year term ends: 2022
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Webmaster Lyndsie M. Schultz Lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis lmschultz@wustl.edu Year term ends: 2022
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
Structure & Governance Bylaws