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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@gmail.com
Vice-President: Alla Smyslova, Columbia University, New York, NY, as2157@columbia.edu
Executive Director: Dan Davidson, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, and American
Councils (ACIE), ddavidson@americancouncils.org
Treasurer: Elena Farkas, Project Light of Manatee, Inc., Bradenton, FL, russianaz@alaskan.com
Chair of ACCELS: Richard Brecht, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, rbrecht@casl.umd.edu

Brooke Ballenger
2022-2025

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

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Nina  Bond
2020-2023
Co-chair of NPSREC
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Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA  
nbond@fandm.edu

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Richard  Brecht 
2022-2025

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

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Robert Chura
2022-2025

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

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

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Dan Davidson 
2020-2023
Executive Director

ddavidson@americancouncils.org

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Julia Denne 
​2022-2025
​By the Onion Sea Program, IL

​jkdenne@aol.com

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Meredith Doubleday
​2022-2025
UNC Chapel Hill, NC

m.doubleday@unc.edu

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Irina Dubinina 
2021-2024
Membership Secretary
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Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
idubinin@brandeis.edu

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Elena Farkas
2020-2023
Treasurer
Chair, Editorial Board for ACTR Newsletter
Co-chair of ACTR Service Award

Director of Adult English Learning Center,
Project Light of Manatee, Inc., Bradenton, FL
russianaz@alaskan.com

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Raquel Greene
2021-2024
Grinnell College

Greener@grinnell.edu


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Olga Klimova
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2021-2024
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University of Pittsburgh 

vok1@pitt.edu

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Susan Kresin
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2021-2024

International Olympiada Committee

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

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Kaylin Land
​2022-2023
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McGill University
kaylincland@gmail.com

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Lauren Nelson
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2021-2024

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

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Diane Nemec-Ignashev 
2022-2025
Co-chair of the Summer Language Teacher Program Committee

Carleton College, Northfield, MN 
dignashe@carleton.edu

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Heather Rice
2022-2025
University of Texas at Austin, TX

hrrice@utexas.edu

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Elizabeth Lee Roby  
2020-2023

Chair of the Nominations Comittee 

Friends School, Baltimore, MD
eroby@friendsbalt.org

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John Rook
2020-2023
Secretary 
Co-chair of the NREC

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

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Izolda Savenkova
2022-2025
Dickinson College, PA

iza.savenkova@gmail.com

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Alla  Smyslova
2021-2024
Vice President
Chair of PSRSLA
Co-chair of NPSREC
Co-chair of the Nominations Committee
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Columbia University, New York, NY 
as2157@columbia.edu

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Mark Trotter 
2020-2023
Co-Chair of the Olympiada of Spoken Russian

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
martrott@indiana.edu

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Nataliya  Ushakova 
2021-2024
​President

Co-Chair of RSLA

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

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Irwin Weil
2021-2024

Northwestern University (emeritus), Evanston, IL
I-­weil@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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