JoAnn ( Jodi) Crandall is Professor Emerita of Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. She is a past president of TESOL, WATESOL, and AAAL, and a founding and current member of the TIRF Board of Trustees.
Kathleen M. Bailey is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the TESOL/TFL Programs at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and at Anaheim University, USA. She is a past president of both TESOL and AAAL, as well as the current president of TIRF.