2023-2024 Event Planning Sub-Committee

Insil Jeon (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Curriculum and Instruction (Culture and Teaching) at University of Minnesota. She holds B.A. in Elementary Education (Philosophy of Education) and M.A. in Applied Linguistics (Korean as a Second Language). Her research interests include Asian American Youth, Immigrant/Refugee Education, and Language Ideology. Her current research focuses on examining Southeast Asian immigrant and refugee students’ and families’ experiences in educational settings. Particularly, she’s working toward an ethnographic work navigating how Korean immigrant/refugee students make sense of becoming an Asian American. She can be reached at jeon0099@umn.edu.

Eva Jin is a Ph.D. candidate in English (Rhetoric, Writing & Literacies) at Arizona State University. Her research interests include informal, interest-driven writing/composition in affinity spaces, multimodal composition, language learning in the digital wilds, and digital rhetoric. She has been connecting First Year Composition classrooms with interest-driven sites (e.g. Reddit, Yelp) and mentoring L2 writers to write for their passion and interests. She also organizes informal language learning groups in digital fandoms. Outside academia, she is a creative and fanfic writer, and an emergent novelist with a passion for cyberpunk culture. She serves on the GSC Event Planning Sub-committee as Roundtable leader, who will organize and lead the Graduate Student Roundtable Event at AAAL 2024. Her expertise includes poster design, photo and video editing. She can be reached at yjin90@asu.edu.

Kerry Pusey is a Ph.D. candidate (Educational Linguistics) and Louise B. McClure Fellow in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. Kerry received his MA-TESL from Northern Arizona University and his BA in anthropology and Portuguese from UCLA. Before beginning his doctoral studies, Kerry taught English for academic purposes courses in the U.S., Macau, Colombia, Japan, and Thailand. He was also an English Language Fellow in Brazil, where he designed and implemented English-medium instruction professional development (EMI PD) courses for higher education faculty. Kerry has expertise in curriculum design and student-centered teaching methodologies and his research interests include student engagement, language assessment, multimodality, and classroom discourse and interaction. Kerry can be contacted at kpusey@upenn.edu. 

Sudhashree Girmohanta is a doctoral candidate in Language and Literacies Education at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto with a collaborative specialization in Comparative International and Development Education. She has completed two MA degrees, one in Urban Education from City University of New York, USA and the other in Bengali language and literature from Rabindra Bharati University, India. She has experience in teaching primary school-aged children. Her research goal is to understand effective ways to help immigrant children maintain their heritage language and foster parental engagement. Contact information: s.girmohanta@mail.utoronto.ca

Jeevan Karki (he/him) is a doctoral student in Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education (CITE) at Michigan State University. Jeevan, a multilingual educator, brings in 15 years of professional experience as K-12 ESL teacher, composition instructor, teacher educator and instructional designer across public and private schools/colleges, and nonprofits serving diverse learners of all ages (6 to 60 years). He has earned a TESOL degree from University of Washington (UW). Jeevan founded a web magazine (merocreation.com) for youths and worked as an editor for ELT Choutari (eltchoutari.com) for several years. Leading and organizing educational and advocacy events was part of his profession and personal interests, which brought him to this committee. His scholarly interests include English language learners’ language and literacy development, equitable learning opportunities, immigrant schooling, educational technology and teacher education. He loves going out for a walk and watching short movies in his leisure. He can be reached at jeevan.carkey@gmail.com and sometimes on Twitter.