Who We Are

SIG Officers

Chair (1 year term)
Magdalena Pando

Associate Professor of Bilingual Education at Southern Methodist University
mpando@smu.edu
year term ends: 2024 (will become Past Chair 2024-25)

Chair-elect/Program Chair (1 year term)

Zhongfeng Tian

Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education

Department of Urban Education at Rutgers University–Newark

zhongfeng.tian@rutgers.edu

year term ends: 2024 (will become Chair 2024-2025)

parliamentarian (3 year term)

María Cioè-Peña
Assistant Professor of Educational Linguistics    
University of Pennsylvania                                                                                                                            
cioepena@upenn.edu                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        year term ends: 2024



   secretary/treasurer (2 year term)

Maria Teresa (Maite) Sánchez                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at Hunter College                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ms1850@hunter.cuny.edu                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  year term ends: 2024

Past Chair/Elections Coordinator (1 year term)

Christina P. DeNicolo

Associate Professor of Bilingual and Bicultural Education at Wayne State University

Wayne State Univeristy

christina.denicolo@wayne.edu

year term ends: 2024

Historian (3 year term)
Rebecca Linares
Associate Professor of ESL/Bilingual Education
Rowan University
linares@rowan.edu
year term ends: 2024

Communications chair (3 year term)

Ana Solano-Campos

Assistant Professor of Language and (Bi)literacy Education

Georgia State University

asolanocampos@gsu.edu

year terms ends: 2025