Elected and Appointed Officers

Elected Officers
NPO JALT Board of Directors
President – Richmond Stroupe
Vice President – Naomi Fujishima
Director of Membership – Joshua Krill
Director of Program – Wayne Malcolm
Director of Public Relations – William Pellowe
Director of Records – Kenn Gale
Director of Treasury – Robert Chartrand
Auditor – Steve Brown
Other
Chapter Representative Liaison – Clare Kaneko
SIG Representative Liaison – Wendy Gough
Appointed Officers
Balsamo Asian Scholar Liaison – Mary Burkitt
Best of JALT Coordinator – Michele Steele
Business Manager – Cory Koby
Chapter Treasurer Liaison – Anton Potgieter
FSC Chair – Michael Mielke
Historian – Aleda Krause
Immediate Past President – Caroline Lloyd
NPO Liaison with Tokyo Metropolitan Government – Kazumi Kato
SIG Treasurer Liaison – Mizuka Tsukamoto
UALS Liaison -Yuriko Kite
Committees
Administrative Committee
George MacLean
Kazumi Kato
CoC Committee
Brent Simmonds (Chair)
Eleanor Smith
Alexandra Shaitan
Jay Drew
External Relations Committee
John M. Gayed
Jason Wolfe
Nathanial Reed
Matthew Kocourek
Domestic Affairs Committee
Darla Cornett (Chair)
Anna Isozaki
Mary Nobuoka
Matt Shannon
International Affairs Committee
Andrew Tweed (Chair)
Caroline Lloyd
Donna Fujimoto
Shirley Ando
Mary Burkitt
Naoya Shibata
Conference Planning Committee
JALT Central Office Associate Member Liaison – Miho Tajima
JALT Central Office Supervisor – Junko Shirakawa
Conference Chair(s) – Louise Ohashi and Mizuka Tsukamoto
Conference Program Chair – Jean-Pierre Richard
Conference Publicity Coordinator – Jason Wolfe
Program Database Manager – Paul Collett
Director of the Four Corners Tour – Mary Burkitt
Research Grants Committee
Tanja McCandie (Chair)
Peter J Collins
Gregory Sholdt
Young Learners Subcommittee
Carolyn Lloyd (Chair)
Aleda Krause
Mary Burkitt
Jon Catanzariti
Regional Professional Activities Committee
Nathaniel Reed (Chair)
Donna Fujimoto
Technology Advisory Committee
Jason Hill (Chair)
Rab Paterson
Kaori Hakone
Dan Ferreira
Gary Ross
PanSIG Executive Committee
PanSIG Conference Chair – Aleda Krause
PanSIG Site Co-Chairs – Melodie Cook, Howard Brown
PanSIG Treasurer – Peggy Ishikawa
Previous Year’s PanSIG Conference Chair – Michael Hollenback
Shadow Conference Chair – Gabriela Schmidt
Diversity and Equity Practices Committee
Jackson Koon Yat Lee (Chair)
Thomas Amundrud
Quenby Aoki-Hoffman
Christina Coslian
Nathaniel Reed
Gerry Yokota

JALT Conference 2025 Tokyo

JALT2025 International Conference

2025年10月31日(金)〜2025年11月02日(日) 東京都渋谷 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター Friday, October 31 – Sunday, November 02, 2025 • National Olympics Youth Memorial Center, Tokyo, Japan

PanSIG 2025

PanSIG Conference

PanSIG 2025 will be held May 16-18 in Chiba. PanSIG is an annual conference organized by JALT’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs).