ACTR Board of Directors
(All terms are from the Annual Membership Meeting to the Annual Membership Meeting in the years listed)

Officers

President: Olga Klimova, 2024-2026, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Vice-President: Elizabeth Lee Roby, 2024-2026, Friends School of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Executive Director: Dan Davidson, CEO, Emeritus Professor, Bryn Mawr College,  Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Secretary: Susan Kresin, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Treasurer: Kristen Welsh, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Chair of ACCELS: Richard Brecht, Emeritus Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Board Members

Aselle Almuratova
2024-2026
  • Graduate Student Representative
  • Post-Secondary Awards Committee
  • Bridge-Building Committee, Graduate Student Outreach and Support Sub-Committee, Chair

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Brooke Ballenger
2022-2025
  • Olympiada of Spoken Russian, National co-chair,
  • Olympiada Development Steering Committee

Central High School, Bellevue Middle School, TN
Richard Brecht 
2022-2025
  • The 2025 ACTR International Virtual Conference Organizing Committee

University of Maryland, College Park, MD  
Robert Chura
2022-2025
  • National Russian Essay Contest, Co-chair
  • The ACTR Secondary Laureate Award, Co-chair

St. Louis High School, St. Louis, MO
Dan Davidson
Executive Director
  • The 2025 ACTR International Virtual Conference Organizing Committee, Co-chair
  • Summer Teacher Professional Development Program (Almaty)
  • Editorial Consultant, Russian Language Journal
  • Official Delegate of ACTR to MAPRYAL
Julia Denne 
​2022-2025
  • Bridge-Building Committee, Advocacy Sub-Committee Chair
  • Olympiada Development Steering Committee
  • Secondary Teacher Excellence Award Committee, Chair

By the Onion Sea Program, Chicago, IL
Meredith Doubleday
​2022-2025
  • Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award Committee, Co-chair

Cencora, Philadelphia, PA
Elizabeth Ewaskio
2023-2026
  • National Russian Post-Secondary Essay Contest, Co-chair
  • Service Award Committee
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University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Elena Farkas
2023-2026Project Light of Manatee, Inc., Bradenton, FL
University of Alaska Anchorage
Raquel Greene
2024-2027
  • DEAI Committee, Chair
  • National Russian Post-Secondary Essay Contest, Co-chair
  • ACTR Summer Teachers' Program Selection Committee

Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Maria Khotimsky
2024-2027
  • Professional Development Committee
  • National Russian Post-Secondary Essay Contest, Co-chair
  • Bridge-Building Committee, Mentorship Program Sub-Committee, Chair
  • The 2025 ACTR International Virtual Conference Organizing Committee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Olga Klimova
​2024-2027
  • President
  • Professional Development Committee, Co-chair
  • Bridge-Building Committee, Advocacy and Mentorship Program Sub-Committees
  • Public Relations/Social Media Committee, Chair
  • Western Pennsylvania Olympiada of Spoken Russian, Regional chair
  • Web Services Committee, Chair
  • The 2025 ACTR International Virtual Conference Organizing Committee, Co-chair
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University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Irina Kogel
2024-2027
  • Professional Development Committee
  • Dobro Slovo The National Slavic Honor Society, Vice-President
  • Web Services Committee
  • The 2025 ACTR International Virtual Conference Organizing Committee

Boston University, Boston, MA
Susan Kresin
​2024-2027
  • ​Secretary
  • Post-Secondary Awards Committee, Chair
  • Bridge-Building Committee, Graduate Student Outreach and Support Committee
  • Professional Development Committee
  • The 2025 ACTR International Virtual Conference Organizing Committee
  • The Nomination Committee

University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Olga Mesropova
2023-2026
  • ​Membership Secretary
  • The 2025 ACTR International Virtual Conference Organizing Committee
  • The Nomination Committee, Chair

Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Lauren Nelson
​2024-2027
  • DEAI Committee
  • The ACTR Secondary Laureate Award, Co-chair

Pritzker College Prep, Chicago, IL  
Heather Rice
2022-2025
  • DEAI Committee
  • Texas Olympiada of Spoken Russian, Regional chair
  • Bridge-Building Committee, Mentorship Program Sub-Committee
  • ​Olympiada Development Steering Committee

University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Ben Rifkin
2023-2026
  • ​Parliamentarian
  • Olympiada Development Steering Committee, Chair
  • Service Award Committee, Chair
  • Fundraising Committee, Chair
  • The 2025 ACTR International Virtual Conference Organizing Committee

Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ
Elizabeth Lee Roby  
2023-2026
  • Vice President
  • Bridge-Building Committee, Chair
  • Bridge-Building Committee, Advocacy, K-12 Outreach, and Mentorship Program Sub-committees
  • Professional Development Committee, Co-char
  • Maryland Olympiada of Spoken Russian, Regional co-chair
  • DEAI Committee
  • Olympiada Development Steering Committee
  • SLAVA, East Regional Vice President
  • The 2025 ACTR International Virtual Conference Organizing Committee, Co-chair

Friends School of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
John Rook
2023-2026
  • National Russian Essay Contest Committee, Co-chair
  • Secondary Teaching Excellence Awards Committee
  • The 2025 ACTR International Virtual Conference Organizing Committee

Smith Middle School, Glastonbury, CT
Izolda Savenkova
2022-2025
  • Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award Committee, Co-chair
  • Advanced Russian Language Conversation Meet-Ups and Summer Book Club, Organizer and Host

Fordham University, New York, NY
Nataliya Ushakova 
2024-2027
  • Bridge-Building Committee, Mentorship Program Sub-Committee
  • The Nomination Committee

Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island, NY
José Vergara
2024-2027
  • DEAI Committee
  • Bridge-Building Committee, Mentorship Program Sub-Committee

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Kristen Welsh
2024-2027
  • Treasurer
  • DEAI Committee
  • Fundraising Committee

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
ACTR Past Presidents

Dan Davidson
​Irwin Well
Don Jarvis
Elizabeth Neatrour
Zita Dabars
Peter Merrill
Jane Shuffelton
Robert Channon
Betsy Sandstrom
Tom Garza
Nataliya Ushakova