UNIVERSITY
Internal Review Board Member, 2013-present
Graduate School Career Ready and Employability Graduate Faculty Advisory Board Member, 2023-present
QualLab Faculty Fellow, 2022-present
Department of Teaching and Learning PhD Re-Design Ad Hoc Committee Member, 2021-2022
EHE Office of Research, Innovation and Collaboration Faculty Fellow, 2019-2022
Department of Teaching and Learning Restructuring Committee Member, 2021
EHE K-12 Reopening Task Force Member, Group 5: English language learners, 2020
Foreign, Second & Multilingual Language Education (FSMLE) Convener, 2020-2021
Graduate Student Working Group for Foreign Language Research and Teaching (FLRT) Faculty Adviser, 2017-present
Second Language Studies Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization Advisory Committee Member, 2015-present
U.S. Student Fulbright Fellowship Review Campus Committee Member, 2015-present
Buckeye Language Network Language Pod Educational Director, 2012-present
Language Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization Advisory Committee Member, 2013-2023
Buckeye Language Network Steering Committee Member, 2010-2020 (see me in the BLN Spotlight)
Department of Teaching and Learning Coordinator of peer observations of teaching, 2018-2020
EHE Research Methodology Center Advisory Board Member, 2018-2019
Dean’s Budget Committee Member, 2017-2018
Center for African Studies Advisory Board Member, 2008-2016
Center for Video Ethnography and Discourse Analysis (CVEDA) co-director, 2011-2014
College Council Representative, 2011-2014
Literacy Studies@OSU Executive Committee Member, 2006-2014, Working Group on Literacy in Translation co-chair, 2013-2014
Department of Teaching and Learning Individual Study Credit ad hoc committee member, 2014
Department of Teaching and Learning OAA Self-study Outreach & Engagement subcommittee member, 2013
Department of Teaching and Learning Dual Degree Program ad hoc committee member, 2014
School of Teaching and Learning Faculty Workload Policy ad hoc committee member, 2010-2011
School of Teaching and Learning Equity and Diversity Committee member, 2009-2011
INTERNATIONAL / NATIONAL
Editorial Board Member for Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, SIG 1 Languge Learning and Education, 2023-
Fulbright Peer Review Committee Member for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (Linguistics), 2019, 2020
Fulbright Regional Peer Review Committee Member for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (BeNeLux/EU), 2018
U.S. Student Fulbright Program National Screening Committee Member, 2010, 2011, 2012
Program Co-chair of 2010 American Association of Educational Research Annual Meeting Division G Section 5 Social Context of Research on Schools and Communities (with Judy Kalman), May 2009-May 2010
Member of Division G Lifetime Award Committee to select the winner of the 2008 AERA Division G: Social Context of Learning Distinguished Contributions to Social Contexts in Education Research – Lifetime Achievement Award, January-March 2008
Reviewer of book manuscripts for Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and Palgrave Macmillan.
Reviewer of manuscripts for several journals, including Anthropology and Education Quarterly, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Applied Linguistics, Journal of Literacy Research, Linguistics & Education, The Modern Language Journal, Qualitative Research, Reading Research Quarterly, TESOL Quarterly
STATE / LOCAL
Ohio TESOL 2019 Conference Featured Speaker and Workshop Organizer (with COSI)
Young English Language Learners Professional Development Modules, Resource Lead for Module 3 Supporting Language Development, Early Childhood Ohio, 2013-2014
Central Ohio Adult ESL/Literacy Resources Promotion Project, project leader, 2012
Annual Ohio Somali High School, College, and University Graduation Ceremony, Ohio Teachers Workshop speaker, 2010, 2011
Columbus City Schools Professional Development Day, PD strand ‘Strategies to Improve Literacy for ESL Students’, keynote speaker, 2009