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

Board Members Login

Officers

President: Natalya Ushakova, Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island, NY, nushakova at gmail.com
Vice-President: Olga Klimova, University of Pittsburgh, vok1 at pitt.edu

Executive Director: Dan Davidson, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, and American
Councils (ACIE), ddavidson at americancouncils.org
Secretary: John Rook, Smith Middle School, Glastonbury, CT, RookJ at glastonburyus.org
Treasurer: Elena Farkas, Project Light of Manatee, Inc., Bradenton, FL, russianaz at alaskan.com
Chair of ACCELS: Richard Brecht, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, rbrecht at casl.umd.edu

Board Members

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Brooke Ballenger
2022-2025
National co-chair, Olympiada of Spoken Russian

Central High School, Bellevue Middle School, TN
ballengerb at scsk12.org


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Richard Brecht 
2022-2025

University of Maryland, College Park, MD
rbrecht at casl.umd.edu    

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Robert Chura
2022-2025

St. Louis High School, MO
rchura at sluh.org

Robert Channon
2021-2024
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Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 
channon at purdue.edu​

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Dan Davidson
Executive Director

ddavidson at americancouncils.org

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Julia Denne 
​2022-2025
Pre-college/Post-Secondary Bridge-Building Committee
Heritage Olympiada Materials Revision Committee
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By the Onion Sea Program, IL
jkdenne at aol.com


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Meredith Doubleday
​2022-2025
Pre-college/Post-Secondary Bridge-Building Committee

UNC Chapel Hill, NC
m.doubleday at unc.edu


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Irina Dubinina 
2021-2024
Membership Secretary (2023)
Professional Development Committee
Chair, Public Relations Committee
Post-Secondary Awards Committee

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Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
idubinin at brandeis.edu


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Elizabeth Ewaskio
2023-2026
Professional Development Committee
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University of Utah
elizabeth.ewaskio at utah.edu
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Elena Farkas
2023-2026
Treasurer
Chair, Editorial Board for
ACTR Newsletter
Co-chair, ACTR Service Award
Co-chair, Secondary Awards Committee


Director of Adult English Learning Center,
Project Light of Manatee, Inc., Bradenton, FL
Adjunct Instructor of Russian, University of Alaska Anchorage
russianaz at alaskan.com


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Raquel Greene
2021-2024
Chair, Nominations Committee (2023)
Chair, DEAI Committee

Grinnell College

Greener at grinnell.edu


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Olga Klimova
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2021-2024

Vice-President
Co-chair, Professional Development Committee
DEAI Committee
Post-Secondary Awards Committee

Pre-college/Post-Secondary Bridge-Building Committee
Public Relations/Social Media Committee
Regional chair, Western Pennsylvania Olympiada of Spoken Russian

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University of Pittsburgh 

vok1 at pitt.edu

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Susan Kresin
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2021-2024

Chair, Post-Secondary Awards Committee
Co-chair, Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award Committee
Pre-college/Post-Secondary Bridge-Building Committee
Professional Development Committee


University of California, Los Angeles
kresin at ad.ucla.edu

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Kaylin Land
​2022-2024
​Webmaster

Public Relations/Social Media Committee
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McGill University
kaylin.land at mail.mcgill.ca

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Olga Mesropova
2023-2026
​Membership Secretary
Heritage Olympiada Materials Revision Committee

Iowa State University
olgames at iastate.edu


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Lauren Nelson
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2021-2024
DEAI Committee
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Nominations Committee (2023)

Pritzker College Prep, Chicago, IL  
lanelson at pritzkercollegeprep.org

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Diane Nemec-Ignashev 
2022-2025
Chair, Summer Language Teacher Program Committee
Chair, Bylaws
​Nominations Committee (2023)
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Carleton College, Northfield, MN 
dignashe at carleton.edu


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Heather Rice
2022-2025
DEAI Committee
Regional chair, Texas Olympiada of Spoken Russian

University of Texas at Austin, TX
hrrice at utexas.edu


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Ben Rifkin
2023-2026
Post-Secondary Awards Committee

Fairleigh Dickinson University
b.rifkin at fdu.edu


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Elizabeth Lee Roby  
2023-2026
Chair,
Pre-college/Post-Secondary Bridge-Building Committee
Co-chair, Professional Development Committee
Regional co-chair, Maryland Olympiada of Spoken Russian
DEAI Committee
East Regional Vice President, SLAVA


Friends School, Baltimore, MD
eroby at friendsbalt.org


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John Rook
2023-2026
Secretary 
Co-chair, the NREC
Co-chair, Secondary Awards Committee

Smith Middle School, Glastonbury, CT
RookJ at glastonburyus.org

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Izolda Savenkova
2022-2025
Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award Committee

Dickinson College, PA
iza.savenkova at gmail.com


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Nataliya Ushakova 
2021-2024
President
Co-Chair
, RSLA
Heritage Olympiada Materials Revision Committee

Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island, NY
nushakova at gmail.com


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Irwin Weil
2021-2024

Northwestern University (emeritus), Evanston, IL
I-­weil at northwestern.edu 

ACTR Past Presidents
Don Jarvis
Elizabeth Neatrour
Zita Dabars
Peter Merrill
Jane Shuffelton
Robert Channon
Betsy Sandstrom
Tom Garza



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