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.
2026 ACTFL Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Krishauna Hines-Gaither: President – Mount Saint Mary's University, Los Angeles, CA
Brandon Locke: President-Elect - Anchorage School District, Anchorage, AK
Milton Alan Turner: Past President - Saint Ignatius High School, Cleveland, OH
Beth Slocum - Treasurer – Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) – Genessee Valley Educational Partnership, Le Roy, NY
Board Members
Ellen Ericson: Mahomet-Seymour High School, Mahomet, IL
Zoe Jiang: PNCFL Regional Representative PNCFL, Sammamish, WA
Jill Landes-Lee - Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Beckie Bray Rankin - Lexington High School, Lexington, MA
Julio Rodriguez - University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
Carmela Bernadetta Scala - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Alicia Dallman-Shoemaker: Central States Regional Representative, Central States
Thomas (Tom) Soth - Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC
Suwako Watanabe: Portland State University, Portland, OR
Ashley Watson-Fears - North East ISD, San Antonio, TX
Junko Yamamoto - Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA