STAFF & BOARDS
Staff:
- Yaritza Abrego, Volunteer Manager
- Claudia Belloso, Student Services Manager
- Liz Daley, Director of Development and Communications
- Sarahim Davila, Student Services Associate
- Jessie Ebersole, Director of Academic Programs
- Chris Griffiths, Associate Director, Operations
- Sheeva Harris ESOL Manager
- Renee McKie, Director of Student Services
- John Odenwelder, Executive Director
- Daniel Snyder, ESOL Associate
To contact a member of the WEC team, simply click on their title above.
Board of Directors:
- Kira Álvarez, Vice Chair – Vice President Government Relations, ViacomCBS
- Chip Brian-Horberg – Attorney
- Joy Cook – Director of Financial Operations, Commission on English Language Program Accreditation
- Clare Bresnahan English – CEO, New Leaders Council
- Mary Douglas, Secretary – Journalist; attorney (retired)
- Aleshia Harding – Country Portfolio Director, Defense Security Cooperation Agency
- Henry Lynch – Senior Vice President, The Chesapeake Capitol Group at Morgan Stanley
- Joan Kerrigan – Corporate and nonprofit executive (retired)
- Laura Levine – Attorney (retired)
- Anu G. Mullick – Executive Director, Regional Clinical Programs, Johns Hopkins Health System
- John Odenwelder, ex officio – Executive Director, Washington English Center
- Sharon Owens Johnson, Treasurer – Chief of Staff, Fannie Mae
- Margot Peet, PhD – Language technology manager (retired)
- Diane Zipursky, Chair – Co-founder, Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network; attorney (retired)
Associate Board:
- Mustafa Bahar
- Alana Garellek, Chair
- Jennifer Griffiths
- Christopher Hart
- Rohita Javangula
- Basia Jones, Secretary
- Allison Kirsch
- Sweta Maturu
- Annie Partika, Vice Chair
- Annie Prusky
- Taylor Shaw
- Youmna Sirgi
- Naria Willis
- Jenny Xiao
- Tim Zimmer
Academic Advisory Board:
- Brock Brady, Chair – Peace Corps
- Claire Kevill – Workplace-Based Trainer
- Sherry Lyons – University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Emily Naber – DC Public Schools
- Mary Spanarkel – Center for Applied Linguistics
- Sherry L. Steeley – Georgetown University
- Heather Tatton-Harris – Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School
- Polina Vinogradova – American University
Emeritus Members of the Board of Directors:
- Susanne K. Bennet
- Ellen Bennett
- Amy F. Berger
- Jennifer Browning
- Frances F. Butler
- Karren DeSeve
- Francis P. Dicello
- Mary Janice Dicello
- Charles Dittrich
- Johanna Mendelson Forman
- Robin Hanerfeld
- Susan K. Hattan
- Sarah Hoagland
- Alexia Kelley
- Jeffrey Kelley
- Joseph Khoury
- Gerald Langan
- Stephanie G. Lawson
- Bonnie Loeb
- Tamera Luzzatto
- Carlos Martin
- Thea Mason
- Sylvia Miller
- Diane Mooney
- Fabian Rosado
- Erin Haskell Ross
- Jocelyn Samuels
- Karen Yudelson Sandler
- Robert Sledge
- Liz Tisdale, Immediate Past Chair
- Elizabeth Werner
- Natalie Wexler
- Louise Wides