Dear AL Community,

I can’t believe that it is that time already—the convention is upon us, and my time as a co-editor of the AL Forum is nearly up. Making the decision to step down was not easy. I’ve had so much fun working with Jana and all of you, and I have learned so much in the past 3 years that I am sad to give up the work. Still, my other duties call me, and it is important for the AL Forum to have a co-editor who can dedicate his or her full attention to every issue.

On that note, I have great news: We do have precisely such a person. Dr. Ben White will be officially taking over my position at the AL business meeting in March. In fact, Ben has been an active co-editor since this past fall, working tirelessly on the latest issue of the newsletter produced jointly by the Applied Linguistics and International Teaching Assistants Interest Sections. He has been fantastic to work with, and in him and Jana Moore, our community will have an excellent team of efficient, organized, and extremely professional co-editors.

I’ve enjoyed serving as an AL Forum co-editor tremendously, and I remain a constant reader and active AL IS member.

My best to all,
Olga Griswold