People

Grant Personnel 

The NLRC is led by: 

• Felix Kronenberg, Director; PI  
• Emily Heidrich Uebel, Associate Executive Director  
• Koen Van Gorp, Head of Research; Co-PI  
• Luca Giupponi, Head of Technology  
• Caitlin Cornell, Head of Outreach 

Project Personnel 

• Caitlin Cornell – Project Leader, Learning Community & Collaborative Professional Development 
• Luca Giupponi – Area Lead, High Quality Professional Development & Project Leader, Online Language Teaching (OLT)  
• Emily Heidrich Uebel – Area Lead, Bridge Initiatives; Project Leader, Shared LCTL Symposium (SLCTLS) & Needs Analysis 
• Felix Kronenberg – Area Lead, Strategic Collaborations at Inter-Institutional Level; Project Leader, LCTL Strategic Collaboration Pilot & Language Program Consulting 
• Amanda Lanier – Project Leader, Virtual Video-based Inquiry for the Development of LCTL Teachers (ViVID) 
• Frederick Poole – Project Leader, Virtual Video-based Inquiry for the Development of LCTL Teachers (ViVID) 
• Sandya Shanker – Project Leader, Teach-a-LCTL (Community/Family Resource Guides) 
• Bruna Sommer-Farias – Project Leader, Virtual Video-based Inquiry for the Development of LCTL Teachers (ViVID) 
• Danielle Steider – Project Leader, LCTL Downloadable Online Open Resources (DOORs) 
• Koen Van Gorp – Area Lead, Open and Innovative Instructional Resources; Project Leader, Learning Community & Needs Analysis 
• Paula Winke – Project Leader, Local LCTL Assessment (LoLA) 

Student Assistants

The NLRC’s projects are also supported by graduate and undergraduate student workers, whose assistance spans a range of projects. See the Student Assistants page to learn more about student personnel.     The NLRC has a graduate assistantship, open exclusively to students of the Master of Arts in Foreign Language Teaching (MAFLT) program.  

Advisory Board

The following Members of the Advisory Board were purposefully chosen to include a wide variety of perspectives pertinent to LCTL education nationwide, including internal MSU constituents (internal and external to the college), a K-12 representative, a community college representative, and a graduate student.

• MSU: Siddarth Chandra (Michigan State University – Director of Asian Studies Center) 
• MSU: Rajiv Ranjan (Michigan State University – Hindi/Urdu Instructor)
• K-12 Rep: Veronica Trapani-Huebner (Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Washington State) 
• Community College: Mieko Philips (Lansing Community College) 
• Student: Elena Hoffenberg (University of Chicago)