2026-2027 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Lung Ying Suet Michelle
Lung Ying Suet Michelle is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at the University of Utah, specializing in Second Language Acquisition. Her work focuses on how language can de-escalate conflict, foster peaceful interaction, support humanizing pedagogies in language acquisition, and shape speakers' ideology and attitudes. Her other research interests include sociolinguistics, second language writing, and positive psychology, with recent interests in corpus linguistics and conversation analysis. Michelle has published in Language Assessment Quarterly, TESL-EJ, and Reading & Writing Quarterly. She has taught in diverse educational settings, including K–12 schools, higher education, adult English programs, and teacher education. She also currently serves as the Social Responsibility Interest Section Incoming Co-Chair for TESOL International.
Jung In Lee
Jung In Lee is a dual-title Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies at Penn State. Their research examines media and institutional discourse in South Korea through critical discourse analysis, with particular interest in the ways in which discourse (re)produces social and political ideologies across contexts. A central strand of their work engages language, gender, and sexuality and queer subjectivities and citizenships. They also engage with decolonial and southern approaches, which shape their methodological and epistemological commitments to questioning Eurocentric assumptions about language, subjectivity, and knowledge production within and beyond applied linguistics.
Lidia Gault
Lidia Gault is a Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her dissertation research focuses on second language listening comprehension. Lidia’s research interests also include beliefs about L2, bilingualism, AI in education and applied linguistics. She served as a Graduate Publications Intern for Foreign Language Annals (2024–2026).
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.
Member Testimonials
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
2025-2026 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Ying Suet Michelle Lung
Ying Luo, Penn State University
Shannon Dunn
Jung In Lee
Ozge Deniz Mehmetoglu
2024-2025 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Ying Luo, Penn State University
Onesmo Mushi, University of Rochester
Alyson Horan, Columbia University
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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