Board of Directors
Who is the leadership at ACTFL?
ACTFL is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors made up of leaders in language education from both K-12 and Higher Education. The ACTFL Board of Directors is elected each year by the membership. Here are the current directors.
2024 ACTFL Board of Directors
L.J. Randolph, Jr.: President - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Milton Alan Turner: President-Elect - Saint Ignatius High School, Cleveland, OH
Brandon Locke: Treasurer - Pacific Northwest Council for Languages (PNCFL), Anchorage School District, Anchorage, AK
Michele Back - University of Connecticut Neag School of Education, Storrs, CT
Adrienne Brandenburg - Poudre High School, Ft. Collins, CO
Cynthia Chalupa - Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL), James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Krishauna Hines-Gaither - Mount Saint Mary's University, Los Angeles, CA
Jill Landes-Lee - Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Catherine Ousselin - Mount Vernon High School, Mount Vernon, WA
Kate Paesani - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Amanda Ramirez - Central States Conference (Central States), Avon High School, Avon, IN
Carmela Bernadetta Scala - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Kathleen Shelton - K-12 World Language Education Specialist, Columbus, OH
Thomas (Tom) Soth - Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC