2025 CLTA Conference San Diego

Linda Egnatz is the Executive Director of the Global Seal of Biliteracy, a free international language credential program designed to fill the opportunity gap for bilinguals of any age who want to celebrate and certify their language skills. In 2013, she was awarded the Golden Apple Teacher of Excellence Award for her role as a teacher and language advocate and in 2014, named the ACTFL 2014 National Language Teacher of the Year. Egnatz is Nationally Board Certified and has taught junior high, high school, and university levels of Spanish, as well as World Language Teacher Education courses. She is the Past President of both Joint National Council on Languages (JNCL-NCLIS)  and the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and currently serves ICTFL as Advocacy Chair. Egnatz serves as an Advisory Board Member of Bilingualism Matters and is a member of the Global Heritage Language Think Tank. A frequent international conference speaker and World Language trainer, she embraces opportunities to coach teachers on moving their students toward higher levels of language proficiency. Egnatz has a B.A. in Romance Language Education and holds an M.A. in Spanish Literature from Purdue University.