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The 2025 Election for NCTE, Section, ELATE, LLA, and TYCA leaders is now closed. We extend a warm congratulations to our newly elected leaders featured below.

Check back this fall for information on nominations for the 2026 election.

 

 

Results of NCTE’s 2025 election:

Jamal A. Cooks, Chabot College, CA 

Elementary Representative-at-Large

Kari Johnston, Perez Elementary, Texas

 

 

Middle Level Representative-at-Large

Vivett Dukes, Middle School Teacher, New York City Department of Education

 

 

Trustees of the Research Foundation

Stephanie R. Toliver, University of Illinois

 

 

 

NCTE Nominating Committee 

Chair: Ileana Jiménez, Stony Brook University, NY

 

 

Autumn Adia Griffin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

 

Ysanna Arthur-John, British Virgin Islands SDA School

 

 

Michelle Peterson-Davis, Uniondale Public Schools, NY

 

 

Stephanie M. Robillard, Saint Mary’s College of California

 

 

 

 

Steering Committee 

Wintre Foxworth Johnson, University of Virginia 

 

 

Carmela A. Valdez, University of Texas

 

 

Nominating Committee 

Chair: Kamania Wynter-Hoyte, University of South Carolina

 

 

Alexandria Estrella Bridges, Arizona State University

 

 

Chris Hass, James Madison University

 

 

 

Steering Committee 

Michelle Yang-Kaczmarek, Dobbs Ferry School District, NY

 

 

 

Nominating Committee 

Chair: Comfort Agboola, Chicago Public Schools, IL

 

 

Tanisha Boyd, Mobile County Public Schools, AL

 

 

Rebecca Chatham-Vazquez, North Dakota State University

 

 

 

Nominating Committee

Chair: Elizabeth Davis, Sayre School, KY 

 

 

Erika Eckart, Oak Park and River Forest High School, IL 

 

 

Jill Williams, Westerville City Schools, OH 

 

 

 

Steering Committee 

Limarys Caraballo, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY

 

 

Fredeisha Harper Darrington, Miles College, AL

 

 

Steven Lessner, Northern Virginia Community College

 

 

Nominating Committee 

Chair: Rubén A. Gonzalez, Stanford University, CA  

 

 

Kamshia Childs, East Texas A&M University  

 

 

Emily Andrea Sendin, Miami Dade College, FL  

 

 

 

Executive Committee  

Kisha Porcher, University of Delaware

 

 

Mandie Bevels Dunn, University of South Florida

 

 

Steffany Comfort Maher, Indiana University Southeast

 

 

Nominating Committee  

Chair: LaMar Timmons-Long, New York University

 

 

Christian M. Hines, Texas State University

 

 

Alexis Morgan Young, Miami University, OH

 

 

Sandra Saco, Arizona State University

 

 

Matthew D. Deroo, University of Miami, FL

 

 

Executive Board 

Carolyn Clarke, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

 

 

Ling Hao, Illinois State University

 

 

 

TYCA Associate Chair

Stephanie Dowdle Maenhardt, Salt Lake Community College, UT