Urge Congress to
defend English
Model official English
statute
Donate
Current Legislation
State Profile
Official English
Bilingual Education
English on the Job
Citizenship and
Immigration
Bilingual Ballots
Puerto Rican
Statehood
Ending E.O. 13166,
the "Multilingual Mandate"
Contact us:
1601 N. Kent St.
Suite 1100
Arlington, VA
22209
ph: (703) 816-8821
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Board
of Directors:
Bob Park, chairman
Gerda Bikales
Leo
Sorensen
John
Tanton
Executive Director:
K.C. McAlpin
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Gerda Bikales is a founding director of ProEnglish. She
has a long record of citizen activism in the cause of protecting
English as the common language of all Americans. Her interest
in the issue was sparked by her personal experience of learning
English as a sixteen-year old immigrant to the United States from
her native Poland.
A graduate of Upsala college, and Rutgers University, Ms. Bikales
holds a Masters degree in Social Welfare. She has served as
program officer in a number of public interest organizations in
the fields of environment and population, and has written extensively
on immigration and language policy. She was the first executive
director of US ENGLISH, the English advocacy group founded by John
Tanton and the late U.S. Senator S.I. Hayakawa, and served on its
original board of directors.
(Read her essay, "Invaluable
and Insignificant: A Meditation on U.S. Citizenship.) |
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