2022 Election Results
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 elections.
Tonya B. Perry, NCTE Vice President
“I look forward to serving my NCTE family as one of its leaders and being an advocate for our community. I am honored to be selected as the Vice President and seek collaboration and dialogue to move us forward. We are stronger together, more so than any one person could be alone. Our collective voices make a difference, an impact.” Read more
Tonya B. Perry is a tireless advocate for students and educators who are often denied a voice. She works with and for educators, students, and communities to develop programs and initiatives that uplift historically marginalized peoples. In addition, she has advocated for others on numerous committees, including the NCTE Executive Committee, as a NCTE Research Foundation Trustee, NCTE Inclusivity Task Force, NCTEAR chairperson, and NCTE Editorial Board. She currently is the director for NCTE’s Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color program and serves on the National Writing Project’s Board of Directors. Perry has also served the nation as a 2000 National Teacher of the Year finalist and a two-time National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT). She has worked as a middle school teacher, teacher educator, full professor, executive director and principal investigator for a large GEAR UP grant, director of the Red Mountain Writing Project, and both interim department chair and executive director for outreach and engagement for a School of Education. Her new co-authored book Teaching for Racial Equity; Creating Interrupters (Stenhouse), which was released in April 2022, is a collaborative work with two teacher educators, Steve Zemelman and Katy Smith, and other brilliant teacher-writers.
Darius B. Wimby, DeKalb County School District, Georgia
High school English teacher, DeKalb County School District, Georgia
NCTE provides a professional home for me by embracing who I am. When I entered this profession (2017), I thought I had to mimic other teachers I’ve seen in the past. I quickly realized I had to be myself. NCTE offers opportunities to embrace my identity as a Black, gay male living and teaching in Atlanta who loves pop culture and literature and to meet like-minded educators who embrace change in the classroom through the 2021 NCTE EC-EOC cohort.
Steering Committee
Laura Ascenzi-Moreno
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Joanna Wong
California State University, Monterey Bay
Nominating Committee
CHAIR: Francisco L. Torres
Kent State University, Ohio
Dorian Harrison
Ohio State University at Newark
Stella Villalba
Dublin City Schools, Ohio
Steering Committee:
Alethea Maldonado
Middle school ESL teacher, Lockhart, Texas
Vanèe Smith-Matsalia
San Bernardino City Unified School District, California
Nominating Committee:
Chair: Anna Osborn
Jefferson Middle School, Missouri
Amy Bouch
Eighth-grade English teacher, Western Pennsylvania
Sierra Gilbertson
Seventh, eighth, and twelfth-grade English teacher, Fosston, MN
Steering Committee:
Jacquay Durant
San Bernardino City Unified School District, California
Rex Ovalle
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Chicago, IL
Nominating Committee:
CHAIR: Anthony Celaya
Western Washington University,
Janelle Quintans Bence
English teacher, Texas
Summer Melody Pennell
University of Vermont
Steering Committee:
Jonathan Bush
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Nominating Committee:
CHAIR: Sweta Baniya
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Naitnaphit Limlamai
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ah-Young Song
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Since the first year of my doctoral studies, I have presented at NCTE Annual Conventions, served on various committees, reviewed proposals for various sections, and recently participated in several NCTE Member Gatherings. NCTE has been an important intellectual and personal community for me for 15 years.
Chair: Qianqian Zhang-Wu
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Linda Christensen
Oregon Writing Project, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
Tricia Ebarvia
Greene Street Friends School, PA
Paula Lamina
Arlington Community High School, VA
Carmela A. Valdez
Kindergarten dual language teacher, Austin, Texas
Executive Committee:
Keisha L. Green
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Davena Jackson,
Boston University, MA
Joanne E. Marciano
Michigan State University, East Lansing
Nominating Committee:
CHAIR: Joaquin Muñoz
University of British Columbia
Wintre Foxworth Johnson
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Hui-Ling S. Malone
Michigan State University, East Lansing
Teaira McMurtry
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dywanna E. Smith
Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina
President-Elect:
Yang Wang
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Executive Board:
Mukkaramah M. Smith
Early Childhood Educator, Columbia, South Carolina
Grace Kang
Illinois State University, Normal, IL