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
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 |
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Robert Channon
2021-2024 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 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 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA idubinin at brandeis.edu |
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Elizabeth Ewaskio
2023-2026 Professional Development Committee 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
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 University of Pittsburgh vok1 at pitt.edu |
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Susan Kresin
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 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
2021-2024 DEAI Committee 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) 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
Don Jarvis
Elizabeth Neatrour
Zita Dabars
Peter Merrill
Jane Shuffelton
Robert Channon
Betsy Sandstrom
Tom Garza
