Our Leadership
Board Members - Communications
T. Leo Schmitt, VP Communications
VPCommunications@nystesol.org
T. Leo Schmitt has lived in seven countries and visited dozens more.
He has extensive experience in intercultural communication and speaks
multiple languages. He has used this knowledge to enhance his work with
international students both as an administrator and faculty member in a
wide variety of environments over twenty-five years.
He has an MA and MPhil in linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center and
is now completing his doctorate. He currently works as Assistant
Professor in the MATESOL program at the New School, New York where he
hopes his own experiences can help a future generation of teachers make
a better world and fewer mistakes. His research interests include
second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics,
intercultural communication, language and power, and the interaction
between these and other linguistic phenomena.
Amany Alkhayat, Director of Online Communications,
OnlineCom@nystesol.org
Amany Alkhayat is currently pursuing a second MA degree in Instructional Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received her first MA degree in TEFL from the American University in Cairo and has more than twenty years of English teaching Experience in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States. She was also the Applied Linguistics program Coordinator at Prince Sultan University, KSA, for five years. Her research interests are focused on Technology in the classroom, designing technology assisted learning/intervention in formal/informal settings, using conversational agents in the EFL/ESL Classroom, Applied Linguistics, Discourse analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. Her 2017 book chapter is in the edited volume, Teaching English Reflectively with Technology, by Dr. Hubbard and Dr. Ioannou-Georgiou and entitled Exploring the Effectiveness of Using Chatbots in the EFL Classroom. Amany served as a TESOL International proposal reviewer from 2011- 2015. She was also an active member at the CALL interest section. Amany looks forward to collaborating with educators from all special interest groups in the future.
Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste, NYS TESOL Journal
Editor-in-Chief
New York City College of Technology, CUNY
lubie@journal.nystesol.org
Lubie is Professor of English and
Applied Linguistics at NYC College of Technology (CUNY), Department of
English. She is the coordinator of academic ESOL program, director of
the ESOL Language Lab and chair of the college-wide ESOL Task Force.
She has taught ESL courses (all levels), second language writing,
composition and rhetoric courses across CUNY, as well as graduate
courses in applied linguistics and TESOL at Hunter College, New School
University, and Long Island University. She has also presented at
conferences and symposia in the USA and abroad. With her educational
background in literature, theoretical and applied linguistics, and her
long experience teaching ESOL, composition and linguistics, she strives
to both build bridges among these disciplines and cross borders in
research. Her current research interests are related to college writing
and composition studies, classroom methodologies of teaching writing,
second language acquisition, genre acquisition and genre transfer. She
has published papers, reviews, and handbooks, and has recently edited,
and authored a number of essays in the college textbook Urban Reader
for College Writers.
Genie Smiddy, Idiom Editor
editors@idiom.nystesol.org
