THE COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

DR. JERVETTE R. WARD

PRESIDENT

Chair & Associate Professor of Black Studies

The City College of New York (CCNY)

The City University of New York (CUNY)
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DR. JANAKA B. LEWIS

VICE PRESIDENT

Associate Dean, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
Professor
Department of English
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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DR. RONDREA DANIELLE MATHIS

SECRETARY & COMMUNICATIONS  DIRECTOR

Assistant Professor of English
Department of Arts and Humanities
Albany State University
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 DR. MCKINLEY E. MELTON

MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR

Associate Professor
Chair of Africana Studies 
Rhodes College
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Dr. Constance Bailey

TREASURER

Assistant Professor of African American Literature/Folklore
Department of English
Georgia State University
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 Dr. Donavan L. Ramon

ASSISTANT TREASURER

Assistant Professor
Department of English
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 
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DR. SHAUNA M. MORGAN

CLAJ EDITOR

Associate Professor
Director of Equity & Inclusion Initiatives

Department of English
University of Kentucky

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DR. KENDRA R. PARKER

ENGLISH
AREA REPRESENTATIVE

Associate Professor of African American Literature
Department of English 
Georgia Southern University
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DR. DAWN DUKE

WORLD LANGUAGES
AREA REPRESENTATIVE

Professor 
Department of World Languages and Cultures
University of Tennessee

 

 

 

  PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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