Ryan Casey is a Spanish teacher at Lexington High School in his hometown of Lexington, MA. He coordinates his school's annual administration of the National Spanish Exam and was the 2021 recipient of the ACTFL/IALLT Award for Excellence in World Language Instruction Using Technology (K-12).

Nadine Jacobson-McLean is a Spanish teacher at Hawthorne Elementary School in Louisville, KY. With over fifteen years of experience, she enjoys creating project-based learning experiences. She is a past president of NNELL and is ABD at the University of Tennessee where she continues to research the parent perspective on early language learning programs.

Haydee Taylor-Arnold teaches Spanish at Ladue Horton Watkins High School and is the President of the Foreign Language Association of Missouri (FLAM). She has an M.A. in Teaching and an M.A. in Spanish Literature. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at St. Louis University. She is a strong advocate for languages and character education, and she actively volunteers and participates as a presenter in world languages and educational organizations in the United States.