2024-2025 Event Planning Sub-Committee
Furkan Kir
Furkan Kir is a PhD candidate and instructor in the Department of English at the University of Washington. He is a member of the team organizing the 2025 AAAL conference and AAAL’s Event Planning Sub-committee. He is also a member of System’s Student Editorial Board. His research interests include the use of English as a medium of instruction, language teacher identity, and social justice in language education. His research has been published in such journals as Multilingual and Multicultural Development and Language and Education.
Ying Luo
Ying Luo is a PhD student and academic writing instructor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Penn State University. She joined AAAL’s Event Planning Sub-committee in 2024. 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.
Onesmo Mushi (He/Him)
Onesmo Mushi is a third year PhD student at the University of Rochester, NewYork, also a AAAL’s Event Planning Sub-committee. His research interests include language and scholarly publishing, language teacher identity, and international research collaborations.
Alyson Horan
Alyson Horan is a doctoral candidate in the Applied Linguistics Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has presented her research at various national and international conferences. She has been teaching ESL for over 10 years, and currently teaches EAP courses in NYC. She also teaches in a TESOL certificate program. She is currently on AAAL’s Event Planning Sub-committee. Her research interests include discourse and conversation analysis, particularly in the study of American Sign Language and those who learn signed languages as a non-native language.
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
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
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