Panelists: Dr. Anna Marie Trester (FrameWorks Institute), Dr. Chelsea Timlin (SLAT Alumna, University of Arizona), Dr. Nicole Schmidt (SLAT Alumna, University of Arizona), and Rachel Floyd (5th-year SLAT PhD Candidate)
Moderator: Nina Conrad, 5th-year SLAT PhD Candidate
Panelist Bios
Dr. Anna Marie Trester was trained as an interactional sociolinguist at Georgetown University, and she illuminates how language can be used to exclude, or conversely how it works in inclusion. She serves as a Senior Associate in the Research Interpretation and Application unit at the FrameWorks Institute, in addition to being the founder of Career Linguist, and the co-founder of PIER Consulting Group. She previously directed the M.A. in Language and Communication program in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University, and she has also taught at Howard University, San Francisco State University, and Stanford University. In her spare time, you can find her storytelling with Tucson Tellers of Tales.
Dr. Chelsea Timlin is a SLAT Alumna, and a Senior Instructional Technologist for the University of Arizona's Center for Assessment, Teaching, and Technology. She is also an experienced instructor of German and Applied Linguistics.
Dr. Nicole Schmidt, a SLAT Alumna, is the Assistant Director of Research, Innovation, and Quality Assurance at the University of Arizona's Center for Assessment, Teaching, and Technology.
Rachel Floyd is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the SLAT Ph.D. program at the University of Arizona, minoring in technology. Her research interests include professional learning, technology-enhanced language learning, and multiliteracies.
Email GIDP-SLAT@arizona.edu for the registration information.