The election slate for the 2020 TESOL International Association President-Elect, Board of Directors, and Nominating Committee is below.
The voting period was from from 15 October 2019 to 5 November 2019. View election results. If you have questions about the election, please contact
Rita Buckner (+1 703.518.2507).
**To view candidate bios and videos, please click on the candidate's name.**
Any photographs used in a candidate’s video has been included at that candidate’s discretion. Photographs in videos do not equate to endorsements by any individual, TESOL, or any other organization.
President-Elect, 2020–2021 (President 2021–2022)
Misty Adoniou
University of Canberra
Bruce ACT, Australia
Gabriela Kleckova
University of West Bohemia
Plzen, Czech Republic
Board of Directors, 2020–2023
The Board of Directors will have
two open seats.
Ayanna Cooper
ACooper Consultant
Dallas, Georgia, USA
Okon Effiong
Qatar University
Doha, Qatar
Christopher Hastings
Southwest Tennessee Community College
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Larisa Olesova
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Nominating Committee, 2020–2021
The Nominating Committee will have
eight open seats.
Stacy Brown
Intentional Humanity-Refugees Forward, OKCPS, ORR Contractors
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Diane Carter
Consultant
MTI School of Knowledge
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Lavette Coney
No bio was submitted before the election began.
The Fessenden School
Roxbury Massachusetts, USA
Raichle Farrelly
University of Colorado Boulder
Broomfield, Colorado, USA
Andy Halvorsen
American English Institute - University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon, USA
Kenneth Kuo-Pin Chi
Fu Jen Catholic University
Taipei, Taiwan China
Barbara Lapornik
Italian State School "France Prešeren"
Trieste, Italy
Chadia Mansour
Athabasca University
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Naziha Ali Raza
The City School Network
Lahore, Pakistan
Veronica Sardegna
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Sarah Warfield
NYU Shanghai
Shanghai, China
Mary Shepard Wong
Azusa Pacific University
Pasadena, California, USA