2008 Board of Directors

President
Susan A. Fowler    
Professor     
Department of Education   
University of Illinois    
Champaign, IL     
safowler@uiuc.edu


Immediate Past President   
Mary Ruth Coleman    
FPG Child Development Institute  
Director of Project U-STARS   
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 
Chapel Hill, NC      
Mary_ruth-coleman@unc.edu  

President Elect
Kathleen Puckett
Associate Professor
Arizona State University
Mesa, AZ 
Kathleen.puckett@asu.edu

Treasurer
Carol R. Eisenbise
Special Education Teacher (ED)
Gilbert Public Schools
Gilbert, AZ
carol_eisenbise@msn.com

Marci Brauchie
Language Arts/Social Studies Teacher
Park County School District #1
Powell, WY
medgmond@yahoo.com

Pamela D. Coe
Director
Caveland Educational Support Center
Bowling Green, KY
Pam.coe@grrec.ky.gov

Elizabeth R. Drame
Assistant Professor
Special Education Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI  53205
erdrame@uwm.edu

Amanda Hopkins
Special Education Teacher
Parkside Children Services
Syracuse, NY
Ahopkins1229@yahoo.com

Sharon Ishii-Jordan
Associate Professor and Chair
Creighton University
Omaha, NE
sij@creighton.edu

Barbara J. Kozma
Staffing Specialist
Lee County School District
Ft. Myers, FL 
samsbj@hotmail.com

Beverly J. McCoun
Director of Student Services
Mount Horeb Area School District
Mount Horeb, WI
mccounbev@mhasd.k12.wi.us

Monika Williams Shealey
Assistant Professor
Florida International University
Miami, FL
shealeym@fiu.edu or mwshealey@aol.com

Jim A. Siders
Chair and Associate Professor
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
jsiders@bamaed.ua.edu

Member-at-Large Canada
Jennifer Tong
Director of Special Education
Catholic Independent Schools
Vancouver, BC  Canada
jentong@shaw.ca or bduncan@cisva.bc.ca

Member-at-Large Classroom Ranks
Sherry Meschko
Special Education Teacher
Aurora Public Schools
Aurora, CO
slmeschko@aps.k12.co.us

Rachel A. Gonzales
Associate Professor
California State University, Sacramento
Sacramento, CA
rgonzales@csus.edu

Patricia Hensley
Educational Consultant
Greenville, SC
loonyhiker@charter.net

Louis Tutt
Principal, School for the Blind
Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind
Colorado Springs, CO
ltutt@csdb.org

Roberta M. Unger
Principal
Mineral County Board of Education
Keyser, WV
runger@access.k12.wv.us

Student Member
Trish Steinbrecher
Graduate Student Scholar
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
trishs@ku.edu

Executive Director
Bruce A. Ramirez
Council for Exceptional Children
brucer@cec.sped.org