Barbara P. Barnett, Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques and the 2009 recipient of the Dorothy S. Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award for Secondary School Teachers, is Head of the Department of Modern Languages at The Agnes Irwin School. She is an author and award-winning filmmaker specializing in the Holocaust in France. bbarnett@agnesirwin.org

Kadima I. Bukasa (B.A., University of Zaire--Institut Supérieur de Commerce/Kinshasa), earned his M.A. from Chestnut Hill College and is presently an Adjunct Faculty there and French instructor at Carroll High School in Philadelphia. Formerly, he served as an Account Technician at the American Embassy Kinshasa. Kadimabukasa@yahoo.com

Rita Davis is Chapter Co-President. She lives in Bryn Mawr and teaches French at the Agnes Irwin School. Rita has been a consultant for the College Board since 1998. rdavis@agnesirwin.org

Dianne Goddard lives in West Chester and is a French teacher at Villa Maria Academy in Malvern. dgoddard@vmahs.org

Edith Guay is a French teacher at Jenkintown High School. guaye@jenkintown.org

Sister Mary Helen Kashuba, Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques, professor of French and Russian at Chestnut Hill College, has been National French Contest Administrator since 1978, and is a past member of the Boards of NECTFL and ACTFL. She is currently Vice-President of the national AATF. kashubam@chc.edu

Christina Kimball-Kelly, Chapter vice-president, lives in Springfield and teaches French at Strath Haven Middle School in the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District. ckimball_kelly@yahoo.com

Katie Kuhner lives in Northeast Philadelphia and is a French teacher at Pennbrook Middle School in the North Penn School District. kuhnerke@npenn.org

Susan Ledieu, Chapter Co-President, is retired from Villa Maria Academy and lives in Newtown Square. sledieu@holychildacademy.com

Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg earned a Certificat de Pratique at the Université de Dijon, was a teaching fellow at Pennsylvania State University and a teaching assistant at the University of Pennsylvania (M.A.) She teaches French at Friends’ Central School, and has been awarded four FCS Clayton Farraday Summer Grants to study in France and Italy, as well as in Greece where she researched the inspiration for Sixteenth and Nineteenth Century French poetry. ROstroff-Weinberg@friendscentral.org

Joanne S. Silver, Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques, is Chapter Secretary-Treasurer, member of Board of the Alliance Française and of the DELF/DALF jury. Retired from teaching French, she now translates and publishes World War II survivors’ stories in French and English, in formats especially suited to the classroom. BEACHLLOYD@erols.com

Emily Wagner, Head of the Middle School Modern Language Department at Germantown Academy, is a high school and middle school teacher of French. She was honored with the first endowed Chair in World Languages at her institution in 2001, the 2002 Dorothy S. Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award for Middle School Teachers, the 2007 PSMLA Educator of the Year Award, and the 2008 Northeast Conference Teacher of the Year Award. Emily.Wagner@germantownacademy.org

Susan Zeager lives in Norristown and is retired from Wissahickon Middle School. She is responsible for the Tete-a-Tete mentoring initiative of AATF (contact her at suzea3@aol.com) for the Philadelphia Chapter and is past President of the Montgomery County Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages. Suzea3@aol.com