A List of State Coordinators

Also see a list of state websites.

State	Contact	Email	Phone
Arizona	Gabie Gedlaman	ggedlaman@bigfoot.com	480/539-1337
California	Cynthia McDermott	cmcdermott@csudh.edu	310/243-3920
Colorado	Perry Butler	prince@ria.net	970/354-7570
Connecticut	Pedro Mendia-Landa	pedro.mendia@yale.edu	203/439-8121
Delaware	Mark Perri	diamond@voicenet.com	302/426-1230
Florida	Catherine Kitto	otti@aol.com	941/362-7386
Georgia	Lisa Amspaugh	amspaugh@excelonline.com	770/963-2431
Hawaii	Verlie A. Malina-Wright	vmalinawri@aol.com	808/261-3714
Idaho	Dan Kmitta	kmitta@uidaho.edu	208/885-7637
Illinois	Harvey Daniels	smokeylit@aol.com	312/441-6635
Iowa	Dick Hanzelka	dhanzelka@aea9.k12.ia.us	319/344-6301
Louisiana	C. C. Campbell-Rock	parentjustice@hotmail.com	504/948-6250
Maine	Bo Hewey	khewey@maine.rr.com	207/774-0419
Maryland	Bess Altwerger	altwerg@saber.towson.edu	410/830-3188
Massachusetts	Karen Hartke	khartkeft@aol.com	617/864-4810
Michigan	Rich Gibson	rgibson@pipeline.com	313/577-0918
Minnesota	Wade Nelson	wnelson@vax2.winona.msus.edu	507/285-7589
Mississippi	Libbie Love	llove@watervalley.net	662/473-9268
Missouri	Debra Smith	d_smith@vax1.rockhurst.edu	816/501-4148
Nevada	Chuck MacLeod	castausa@hotmail.com	775/826-7848
New Jersey	Dee Bucciarelli	deenb@worldnet.att.net	609/924-3416
New York	Jan Hammond	jdh77777@aol.com	914/257-2812
North Carolina	Irv Besecker	besecker@sprynet.com	336/766-6160
Ohio	Mary O'Brien	sobrien@columbus.rr.com	614/487-0477
Oklahoma	Will Muir	wmuir@norman.k12.ok.us	405/364-4465
Oregon	Bill Bigelow	bbpdx@aol.com	503/916-5140
Pennsylvania	Melissa Butler	mab@icubed.com	412/421-1724
South Dakota	Kim Hanes	khanes@sd.cybernex.net	605/734-4052
Tennessee	Gilda Lyon	gdlyon@yahoo.com	423/825-0844
Texas	Eileen Weinstein	lilefty@aol.com	713/629-8233
Utah	Michelle Bachman	michelle.bachman@slc.k12.ut.us	801/485-5608
Vermont	Susan Ohanian	SOhan70241@aol.com	802/425-4201
Virginia	Mickey VanDerwerker	wmzemka@aol.com	540/586-6149
Washington	Doug Selwyn	dselwyn@u.washington.edu	206/329-4883
Washington D.C.	Aleta Margolis	aleta@artistryinteaching.org	202/822-8081
Wisconsin	Bob Peterson	REPMilw@aol.com	414/265-6217
If your state isn't on the list, please consider volunteering to be the coordinator for your state.

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