Hello to all of my friends and colleagues in ITA programs everywhere!

My name is Rebecca Oreto and I am the associate director of the Intercultural Communication Center at Carnegie Mellon University. I have been working with ITAs for about 12 years, and I have found the ITAIS to be an essential source of information for research and best practices regarding ITA training.

As the chair elect, I am in charge of putting together relevant intersections, which involves trying to organize conference sessions between our ITAIS and other TESOL interest sections that address the current needs and interests of ITAs. I would be very interested to hear your ideas for planning these sessions, and what you think relevant topics would be. Based on your input, I will see what is possible to arrange.

I hope you all wrap up your semesters successfully and I look forward to hearing from you.

Rebecca