Prof. Shannon Sauro (Ph.D)
Professor, Department of Education
University of Maryland
President, UNICollaboration
Shannon Sauro (Ph.D.) is a professor in the Department of Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA). She is a specialist in computer-assisted language learning, and second language literacy and has taught in English teacher education programs at universities in the United States and Sweden. Her areas of research specialization include the intersection of online fan practices in the digital wilds and language learning as well as virtual exchange for teacher education. She is currently president of UNICollaboration, an international organization for virtual exchange in both formal and non-formal educational contexts.
Prof. Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza
Senior Professor
Universidade de São Paulo
Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza is a senior professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Universidade de São Paulo, where he supervises graduate and postdoctoral research in various facets of applied linguistics. Having begun his academic career in Mozambique, he has been visiting professor in Italy, Scandinavia, India, Canada, South Africa and Australia.
His most recent publications in English include ‘Coloniality, Epistemicide and Language Learning in Brazil’ in Limerick, N. et al (eds) 2024 Multilingual Nations, Monolingual Schools; ‘Kshetra and the nurturing of a plurilingual ethos’ (2024) in Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices vol. 4.2; and ‘Southernizing Linguistics’ in Entanglements: Between Decolonial and Southernizing Linguistics, Makoni et al (eds.) 2025.
Dr. Jan Hare (Ph.D)
Dean and Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), Indigenous Pedagogy
Chair, Association of BC Deans of Education (ABCDE)
Faculty of Education | Vancouver and Okanagan Campuses
The University of British Columbia
Dr. Jan Hare is an Anishinaabe scholar and educator from the M’Chigeeng First Nation, located in northern Ontario, Canada. She is Professor and Dean in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia.
In addition, she holds a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Pedagogy. Her research is concerned with transforming educational institutions by centering Indigenous knowledges and languages in teaching and research. At the core of her work is improving educational outcomes for Indigenous learners. This work has led to the development of two accessible Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education and Nurturing Childhoods Through Indigenous Ways of Knowing.
Her current research explores the relationship of land education as a basis for leadership development.
Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele
Professor, VIZJA University, Warsaw, Poland
Honorary Professor at University College London and Emeritus
Professor at Birkbeck, University of London
Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor in Applied Linguistics at VIZJA University, Warsaw, Poland; Honorary Professor at University College London and Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of London.
He has published and edited 10 books, around 400 papers and chapters on emotion and individual differences in multilingualism and foreign language learning. He is former president of the International Association of Multilingualism, the European Second Language Association and the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning.
He is General Editor of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. He won the Equality and Diversity Research Award from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2013), the Robert Gardner Award from the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (2016) and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the European Second Language Association (2022). He was ranked as the 2nd most influential linguist in the world in the Stanford rankings 2025.
Prof. David Gramling
Professor
University of British Columbia
