GSC Steering Committee

Sarah Howard is a Ph.D. Student in the Language, Equity and Educational Policy program at Oregon State University. Her research interests include English language teacher training, equity in English language pedagogy, matters of identity in the language teaching context, collaborative writing and teaching, family literacy, and family engagement. Previous research investigated language identity, imagined communities, and learner motivation for adult English Language Learners in an Intensive English Program. Sarah’s professional expertise includes teaching academic and workplace English at the college level and serving as a teaching assistant for pre- and in-service teacher preparation ESOL endorsement courses. Currently, she serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Administrative Assistant, and Research Assistant for the Teachers Educating All Multilingual Students (TEAMS) program at Oregon State. As a former member-at-large turned Newsletter Sub-Committee Leader, and now co-chair for AAAL GSC, Sarah’s responsibilities have varied over the past two years to serve the needs of the GSC. Sarah can be reached at howasara@oregonstate.edu.

John Odudele is a Ph.D. student in English Language and Literature at the University of Washington. He holds a Diploma in Law, a bachelor's degree in Linguistics and Communication Studies and a master’s in Applied Linguistics. He has taught English in three countries (Nigeria, his home country, Turkey, and the USA). John's scholarship explores power, race, and inequality in language education, particularly concerning world Englishes, critical anti-racist, and culturally responsive pedagogy. John is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, teaching English writing courses and can be reached at jaodu@uw.edu.

Mukib Khan is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Applied Linguistics Program within the Department of English at Oklahoma State University. His research interests focus on second language writing and technology, multimodality, digital genres, and the use of visualization to enhance communication. Currently, he is investigating the role of Graphical Abstracts (GAs) in improving scholarly communication. Originally from Bangladesh, Mukib has experience as a university-level language teacher. He also serves as one of the Associate Directors of the International Composition Program (ICP) in his department. As a researcher, Mukib aims to explore diverse modes of communication integrated into digital platforms for academic purposes to foster more equitable learning environments. As the chair of the GSC social media sub-committee, Mukib's goal is to leverage various digital platforms to enhance scholarly communication.

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 currently charis AAAL GSC’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.

Ifeoluwa Awopetu is a Ph.D. student in the Applied Linguistics program at the University of Memphis. Her research investigates the intersections of language, identity, and ideology in digital communication. She draws on discourse/multimodal analysis and digital rhetoric to examine how language shapes public perception, social inclusion, and policy framing particularly in online spaces. Her current work explores how hate speech is defined and identified across various platforms.

Ifeoluwa has taught college-level courses in linguistics and writing, and she currently serves as the Technical Editor of the University of Memphis Undergraduate Research Journal. She can be reached at pawopetu@memphis.edu

Malachi Henry, M.A., CCC-SLP, is a PhD candidate in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington. Malachi holds a B.S. and M.A. in speech-language pathology from Ball State University. He is a fully licensed clinician certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and he has worked in early intervention, preschool, and elementary school settings addressing developmental speech and language disorders. His primary research interests center around acoustics of disordered speech, sociophonetics, and speech perception in response to variation in the signal due to talker characteristics such as race, gender, accent, and impairment. He is a member of his department's DEIJ Recruitment and Retention Subcommittee and he now leads the AAALGSC JEDI subcommittee to bring perspectives from communication sciences and disorders and to continue to engage in DEIJ efforts in the scientific organizations to which he belongs. Malachi can be reached at mahhenry@iu.edu, and you can find out more about what he has been up to recently by visiting https://www.malachi-henry.com/.