Chief Educator Learning Officer WIDA | Madison, Wisconsin We are pleased to announce that Meg Van Voorhis has been named inaugural Chief Educator Learning Officer (CELO) at WIDA, an education technology organization specializing in the research and development of products and services to support multilingual learners and their educators. Van Voorhis comes to WIDA from Lexia Learning, where she served as Director of Professional Learning and led a team of instructional designers and content writers to create digital professional learning experiences for educators to support Lexia’s product portfolio. Van Voorhis has a strong commitment to supporting multilingual learners and started her career as a public school educator in dual-language classrooms. She later managed dual language programs and curriculum and instructional services at VIF International Education. In her new role, Van Voorhis will lead a new team of professional learning specialists and instructional designers as the organization grows the reach and impact of its tools that support educators of multilingual learners and their educators.Van Voorhis received her BA from Princeton University and her M.Ed. with a focus on elementary education and ESL from the University of Michigan.Jeff Kessner led this search with Diana Carmona and Jenny Rubin.