Program Chair/Chair-Elect (1 year term) 

  Parliamentarian (3 year term)

 Communications Chair (3 year term)

Advocacy Working Group

This newly restarted working group will explore the various forms of advocacy of researchers, teachers, community members, families, and students in relation to multilingual learners, educational programs, instructional practices, and policies. 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.

Chairs:

Lina Martin Corredor,  Assistant Professor of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education, Metropolitan State University of Denver, lmartinc@msudenver.edu 

Christina P. DeNicolo, Associate Professor of Bilingual/Bicultural Education, Wayne State University, christina.denicolo@wayne.edu 

Members:

• Dan Heiman, Assistant Professor of Bilingual/Biliteracy Education, University of Texas at El Paso
• Ryan W. Pontier, Assistant Professor,  Florida International University
• Wenyang Sun, Assistant Professor, University of Utah
• Caitie Dougherty, Postdoctoral Fellow, Southern Methodist University
• Andrea Mercado, WIDA Professional Learning Facilitator, University of Wisconsin WIDA
• Daniel Garzon, Assistant Professor, California State University Los Angeles
• Kyungjin Hwang, Ph.D. candidate, University of South Carolina
• Christian Valdez, Ph.D. student, Georgia State University

Mentoring Working 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: 

Idalia Nuñez, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio, idalia.nunez@utsa.edu  

Susana Ibarra Johnson, Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University, sijohnso@nmsu.edu 

Members:

• Wenyang Sun, Assistant Professor, The University of Utah
• Jiadi Zhang, Ph.D. candidate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
• Kyungjin Hwang, Ph.D. candidate, University of South Carolina

Newsletter Working 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:

• Patricia Ferreyra, Assistant Professor, Western Washington University, ferreyp@wwu.edu

Members:

• Tabitha Hornby, Graduate Student, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• Mina Min, Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University
• Karen Terrell, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Loyola University Maryland
• Hannah Park, WIDA Researcher, The University of Wisconsin-Madison 
• Consuelo O'Leary, PhD candidate, National Louis University, Chicago

Oral History Working Group

Chair:

Cori Salmerón, Historian, Georgia State University, csalmeron@gsu.edu 

Members:

• Leah Durán, Associate Professor, University of Arizona
• Natasha Perez, Assistant Professor of Literacy, University of Houston Downtown 
• Sharon Ulanoff, Professor of Bilingual/Multicultural and Literacy Education, California State University, Los Angeles
• Rebecca Linares, Associate Professor, Rowan University 
• Enrique D. Degollado, Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education, The University of Iowa 
• Norma Guzman, Professor of Bilingual Education, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
• Patricia Venegas-Weber, Dual Language Program Supervisor at The Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
• Mariana Becker, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
• Hannah Kim, PhD student, University of Colorado Boulder

Social Media Working 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: Ana Solano Campos, Communications Chair, Georgia State University, asolanocampos@gsu.edu

Member: 

• Christian Valdez, Ph.D. student, Georgia State University
• Maria Cerrato, Ph.D. student, Georgia State University
  
• Loren Jauregui, Ph.D. student, Georgia State University
  
• Victor Lozada, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas-Dallas
  
• Golnar Fotouhi, Ph.D. student, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
  
• Hannah Park, WIDA Researcher, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
  

Webinar Working Group

Chair:

• Kristen L. Pratt, Associate Professor, Western Oregon University, prattk@mail.wou.edu 

Members:

• Alisha Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Lesley University
• Ji Ma, Graduate Student, Georgia State University
• Nirmla Flores, Assistant Professor, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona