2025-2026 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Michelle Lung
Michelle Lung is a doctoral student in the Linguistics Program at the University of Utah. Over the past ten years, she has taught EFL/ESL in Hong Kong, Japan, England, and the U.S., working with students from more than 75 countries. She has taught composition, TESOL methods, community ESL classes, and courses in Intensive English Programs at various universities. Her research interests focus on second language acquisition, particularly second language writing, dual language immersion programs, and program administration. Her work has been published in journals such as Language Assessment Quarterly, TESL-EJ, and Reading & Writing Quarterly
Jung In Lee
Jung In Lee is a dual-title PhD student in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She has experience teaching EFL to secondary students in South Korea and adult ESL to immigrants in the United States. Her primary research interests include L2 Korean, phonology, and the intersection of language and sexuality. Her current work focuses on L2 phonology, with a particular emphasis on Korean wh-indeterminate questions. She is also actively engaged in decolonial discourse within applied linguistics and advocates for more inclusive, accessible, and diverse forms of scholarship in academia.
Özge Deniz
Özge Deniz is a dual-title Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics and African Studies at the Pennsylvania State University and a recipient of a Fulbright Ph.D. Scholarship from Turkey. She is currently working as a research assistant for the African Studies Global Virtual Forum. Prior to her doctoral studies, she taught EFL and worked as a curriculum coordinator at the tertiary level in Istanbul. She has also taught Turkish to various immigrant communities in the city. Her research explores multilingualism and the politics of South-South mobilities through ethnographic lenses, with a particular focus on African international student mobility to Turkish higher education.
Shannon Dunn
Shannon Dunn is a doctoral student of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University focusing on academic writing, instructed second language acquisition, and education administration. She holds an MA in Curriculum and Instruction: TESOL from the University of Missouri- Kansas City, and a BA in Secondary English Education from Washburn University. Shannon previously taught intensive English in multiple Saudi Arabian Universities and was a consultant for Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Education: Education and Training Evaluation Commission supporting topics of school evaluations, university acceptance protocols, and education during COVID.
Ying Luo
Ying Luo is a PhD student and research assistant in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. She joined AAAL’s Event Planning Sub-committee in 2024. She has nearly ten years of experience teaching English for academic purposes (EAP) and English for special purposes (ESP). Additionally, she conducted training for pre-service teachers who aimed to teach English language learners (ELL) in K-12 settings in the US. Her research interests include second language writing, corpus linguistics, technology-facilitated learning and teaching, and sociocultural theories. Her collaborative research has been published in journals such as Language Teaching.
Member Testimonials
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I am lucky to be a member of the AAAL GSC event planning sub-committee since 2020. Led by our amazing leader, our team has organized several webinars, pre-conference workshops, and contributed to other GSC events. This experience has provided me an opportunity to practice my organizational and communication skills as well as learn from a team of capable and supportive co-members and friends. I look forward to the upcoming year and many more exciting events!
-Yuchan (Blanche) Gao
2024-2025 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Ying Luo, Penn State University
Onesmo Mushi, University of Rochester
Alyson Horan, Columbia University
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2023-2024 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Kyungjin Hwang, University of South Carolina
Insil Jeon, University of Minnesota
Eva Jin, Arizona State University
Kerry Pusey, University of Pennsylvania
Jeevan Karki, University of Washington
Sudhashree Girmohanta, University of Toronto
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2022-2023 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Kyungjin Hwang, University of South Carolina
John Wayne N. dela Cruz, McGill University
Yadi Zhang, University of Rochester
Insil Jeon, University of Minnesota
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2021-2022 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Yuchan (Blanche) Gao, Arizona State University
Fatemeh Bordbarjavidi, Iowa State University
Rong Ren, Arizona State University
Maria Kostromitina, Northern Arizona University
Yadi Zhang, University of Rochester
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2020-2021 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Fatemeh Bordbarjavidi, Iowa State University
Yuchan (Blanche) Gao, Arizona State University
Rong Ren, Arizona State University
Maria Kostromitina, Nothern Arizona University
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2019-2020 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Fatemeh Bordbarjavidi, Iowa State University
Zhongfeng Tian, Boston College
Elif Burhan-Horasanli, University of Arizona
Ufuk Keles, University of Alabama
Conor McKeon, Marquette University
Jackie Ridley, Ohio State University
Tyler True, Northern Arizona University
Zhenjie Weng, Ohio State University
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2018-2019 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Nicole King, Ohio State University
Conor Mckeon, Marquette University
Rong Ren, Arizona State University
Jennifer Slinkard, University of Arizona
Rebecca Tang, Ohio State University
Nathan Thomas, University of Oxford
Tyler True, Northern Arizona University
Rurik Tywoniw, Georgia State University
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2017-2018 Event Planning Sub-Committee
David Chiesa, Georgia State University
Wendy Li, Michigan State University
Jihye Shin, Northern Arizona University
Fang Wang, The University of Iowa
Yi Wang, University of Arizona
Zhaozhe Wang, Purdue University
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2016-2017 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Melinda Childs, Georgia State University
Yuhan Lin, University of Hawaii
Andrea Lypka, University of South Florida
Ji-Young Shin, Purdue University