READING RECOVERY - Key Persons


Amy Smith - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Annie Opat

Job Titles:
  • Trainer, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS

Billy Molasso

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Carissa Hershey

Job Titles:
  • Digital Communications Manager

Carmen Lipscomb

Job Titles:
  • Teacher Leader, Denton, TX

Carol Lang

Job Titles:
  • Products Manager

Dena Harrison

Job Titles:
  • Program Generalist

Jeffery Williams - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Communications

Karen Scott - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Nominating

KT Hughes Crandall

Job Titles:
  • Creative Communications Manager

Laura VanTress

Job Titles:
  • Director of Information Systems

Leslie McBane

Job Titles:
  • President Elect

Lindy Harmon - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer
  • Finance - Lindy Harmon, Chairperson

Maeghan McCormick - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice President

Marie M. Clay

Job Titles:
  • Researcher, Author, and Champion of Young Readers
Acknowledgement: This brief biography is adapted from the 1999 book, Stirring the Waters: The Influence of Marie Clay, edited by Janet S. Gaffney and Billie Askew. It is presented here with permission of the authors and the publisher, Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH. Text has been updated in a few places from text that appears in the original book. It is hard to find words to express what Marie Clay has meant to the field of reading education around the world.

Mary Lou Petters

Job Titles:
  • Secretary

Mike Lemaster

Job Titles:
  • Senior Accountant

Sally Ann DeBolt

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member