Meet the NEW BOARD MEMBERS

President Elect 2025-2026
​Victoria Berasaluce Guerra

Victoria Berasaluce Guerra is a World Language teacher with over 8 years of experience in the United States and Argentina. She holds a B.A. degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires and a Master of Arts in education, technology and educational change from Universidad de San Andrés. Victoria is the newsletter editor of the GWATFL Gazette, serving as a GWATFL MAP since 2023. She has presented on topics of education technology and cultural literacy, both in the United States and abroad. Since she was young, she was always passionate and curious about language learning and exploring different cultures. Her interests range from information literacy and professional development to education technology.  

Secretary 2025-2026:
Stephanie Krause
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Stephanie is a middle school Latin teacher and the World Languages Department Chair at McLean School. She has a passion for bringing the ancient world alive for her students and helping them make meaningful connections to the modern world. Stephanie engages with her colleagues at local conferences such as GWATFL, as well as regional and national gatherings like NECTFL and ACTFL. She serves on ACTFL's DEI Committee and holds the position of GWATFL MAP for Emerging Leaders.

Board Members 2025-2026:​

Rachael Aldridge

Rachael brings 27 years of experience in the learning, teaching, and leading of languages and currently serves as a World Languages Curriculum Specialist for Fairfax County Public Schools. In her current position she supports more than 400 teachers and 45,000 students in secondary language courses for 13 languages. Her most recent collaborative projects include an enterprise-wide overhaul for a standards-based language agnostic curricular program, facilitating professional learning at the local, state, and national levels, and working to recognize linguistic and cultural diversities that students bring to our region. Her goal for GWATFL is to optimize the capacity for outreach to connect language teachers in the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area to learn with and from each other.

​Daphne Clyburn

Daphne Clyburn is a dedicated Spanish teacher with 16 years of experience, currently serving her eighth year at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, MD, where she also heads the PS-12 Language Department. Passionate about professional development and fostering collective efficacy, she actively engages with current research and student-driven data, and collaborates with her department to do the same. As a CTTL/Omidyar Teaching Fellow with the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, she has published her research on Empathy Interviews in Volume 5 of Think Differently and Deeply. Additionally, Daphne has presented at local and national language conferences, including ACTFL, NECTFL, and GWATFL, where she was honored to be the keynote speaker for the Spring 2022 conference. Daphne earned her MA in Teaching a Second Language from Bennington College and her BA from Wesleyan University. Outside the classroom, she enjoys experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen and exploring local adventures with her family. She believes that learning a language is a powerful tool for building community and is excited to inspire her students every day.

Jenna Fournel

Jenna Fournel has been involved with Center for Inspired Teaching since 2004 and has worked in the education field for more than 20 years. She began her career as a high school English teacher and has served as Director of Communications for both Inspired Teaching and the National Council of Teachers of English. Her overarching professional goal is to do what she can to make the world a kinder place. She believes investing in the education of our young people is the best place to start.

Amy Wopat

Amy Wopat is language educator with over 20 years of classroom experience teaching Spanish and English in the US and Latin America. She has taught students in middle school, high school, and higher education, levels 1 through AP. She has been coaching and training teachers since 2008, having presented internationally, nationally, and locally, including at ACTFL, IFLT, and to teachers in DCPS. Amy is a an AP Reader, Fulbright Teacher award recipient and DCPS World Languages Teacher of the year. In addition to her passion for teaching languages, Amy is a certified Yoga and Mindfulness meditation instructor. When not teaching you can find her traveling, hiking, kayaking, and gathering with family and friends.