NAELPA's Advisory Members
The National Association for English Learner Program Administrators engages experts in the education of ELs to provide guidance, suggestions, and practical solutions to issues faced by NAELPA and by EL educators. Advisory Members may serve for three consecutive years and must take at least one year off before being able to serve as an advisory board member again. The current NAELPA Advisory Members are:
Advisory Member | Affiliation | Currently Serving |
Dr. Deborah Short | Founder and Director, Academic Language Research & Training | 2022-2023 |
Dr. Nilda Aguirre | NABE Executive Director | 2022-2023 |
Dr. Julie Sugarman | Migration Policy Institute | 2021-2022, 2022-2023 |
Jesse Markow | Independent Consultant | 2020-2021 , 2021-2022, 2022-2023 |
Marshall Foster - Past President | North Carolina Department of Public Instruction | 2021-2022 |
Previous Advisory Members | Affiliation | Executive Board Years Served |
Dr. Kenji Hakuta | Stanford University, CA | 2021-2022 |
Dr. Joel Gomez | Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) | 2018-2019 / 2019-2020 / 2020-2021 |
Dr. David Nieto | Northern Illinois University | 2018-2019 / 2019-2020 / 2020-2021 |
Carol Salva | Siedlitz Education | 2018-2019 / 2019-2020 / 2020-2021 |
Dr. Soyoung Park | Stanford University, CA | 2018-2019 |