Member Spotlights
2023 Spotlights
Rhashida Hilliard
Middle Division Spanish Language Educator
Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY
Benjamin Bradshaw
Dual Language Immersion and ESOL teacher
Gwinnett County Public Schools, Norcross, GA
Claudia Kechkian
President and Communications Coordinator of the AATSP Texas-Brazos Chapter
Rosa María Bell
World Language Department Chair
James Campbell High School Ewa Beach, Hawaii
Julián Barroso Merino
Spanish Faculty and Portuguese Coordinator
College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Reginald Bess
President, College Language Association (2020-2022)
2022 Spotlights
Nan Caldwell
World Language Department Head/ Spanish teacher, Community Service Coordinator, Lake Forest Country Day School, Lake Forest, Illinois
Elia López
Spanish Faculty Member
Truman College, Chicago, IL
Fernanda Ferreira
Professor and Acting Chairperson of Global Languages and Literatures
Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA
Jorge Méndez-Seijas
Language Program Director, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Yale University, New Haven, CT
Caitlin E. Samples
PhD student, Department of Romance Languages, University of Georgia
Adjunct instructor, Department of Humanities, Piedmont University
Tanya Vargas
Spanish Teacher
Markham Woods Middle School, Lake Mary, FL
Silvia Ramos-Sollai
Adjunct Professor
University of Florida
Sara Saez Fajardo
Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Victoria Rodrigo
Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
Lisa DaCunha Machnik
K-12 World Languages Supervisor
Somerville Public Schools, Somerville, Massachusetts
2021 Spotlights
Mércia Flannery
Senior Lecturer, Director of the Portuguese Language program
The University of Pennsylvania
Director of Phi Lambda Beta (Sociedade Honorária de Língua Portuguesa)
Lillian Jones
University of
California, Davis
Jenniffer Whyte
The Donoho School
Anniston, AL
Boris Yelin
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Clarissa Adams
Dunwoody High School
Dunwoody, GA
Koichi Hagimoto
Wellesley
College
Wellesley, MA
Eld
a Acevedo Estefania
Vandegrift High School
Austin, Texas
Erica Nathan-Gamauf
Spanish Instructor
Loyola Academy, Wilmette, Illinois
AATSP Board of Directors 9-12 Representative
Florencia Henshaw
Director of Advanced Spanish
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL
2020 Spotlights
Ada Ortúzar-Young
Current President of the AATSP and Professor emerita at Drew University
Madison, New Jersey
Megan Worcester
Union County High School
Liberty, IN
Faith Blackhurst
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
Jessica Bell'Aver
Bluffdale Elementary School
Bluffdale, UT
Amarilys Heard
Saint Edward's School
Vero Beach, FL
Nancy Wysard
Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu
Honolulu, HI
David Engel
Oregon State University - Cascades
Bend, OR
Anthony "T.J." Troche
Spring Valley High School
Las Vegas, Nevada
Maritza Sloan
Ladue Horton Watkins High School
St. Louis, MO
Rebecca E. Aubrey
Timothy Edwards Middle School
Mansfield, CT
Christine Poteau
Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ
Megan Flinchbaugh
Manheim Central High School
Manheim, PA
2019 Spotlights
Cynthia Flax
Empire State College
Saratoga Springs, NY
John T. Maddox IV
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Theresa Jensen
Millard North High School
Omaha, NE
Natalie Taylor Bock
San Antonio Academy
San Antonio, TX
Dieter A. Waldvogel
Samford University & UAB
Birmingham, AL
Sonia Puerta-Quinn
Episcopal Day School
Augusta, GA
Blair E. Bateman
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT
Renato Alvim
California State University, Stanislaus
Turlock, CA
Irma Bjerre
Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, OR
Stephanie Enseñat Davis
Isidor Newman School
New Orleans, LA
Diana Ruggiero
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN
Haydee Taylor-Arnold
Ladue Horton Watkins High School
Saint Louis, MO
2018 Spotlights
Mary Jo Adams
Providence Day School
Charlotte, NC
Cory Dulcos
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY
Benjamin Fraser
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
Gláucia Silva
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Dartmouth, MA
Linda
Villadóniga
Retired
Rhea Kocik Grate
Saint James School
Montgomery, AL
Edgar Serrano
University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS
Donna A. Clark
Northern Virginia Community College
Woodbridge, VA
Rachel M. Hernandez
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI
2017 Spotlights
Jennifer Brady
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, MN
AATSP Board of Directors (New Members)
Group Spotlight
Conxita Domènech
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY
Domnita Dumitrescu
Professor Emerita
California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Estelle Irizarry
Professor Emerita
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Frank Nuessel
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
Stephanie Schenck
Clover High School
Clover, SC
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
2016 Spotlights
Germán D. Carrillo
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
Linda Egnatz
Lincoln-Way North High School
Frankfort, IL
DePaul University
Chicago, IL
Jamie Leite
Utah State Office of Education
Salt Lake City, UT
Sheri Spaine Long
Independent Scholar
Editor of Hispania
Katherine Vadella
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
2015 Spotlights
Mark P. Del Mastro
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC
María José Fabre González
Consejera de Educación en Estados Unidos y en Canadá
Washington, DC
María del Pilar García
Bayside High School
Bayside, NY
St. John's University
Jamaica, NY
Janelle Gondar
Yale University
New Haven, CT
John Maddox
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Janet Pérez
Professor Emerita
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
Jorge Pulleiro
Wood River Middle School
Hailey, ID
Gregory L. Thompson
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT
Bill VanPatten
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
