Dr. Coady serves on national, state, and local boards. Her service includes the Eastern-region representative of the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), the former 2020-21 Chair of the AERA Bilingual Education Research Special Interest Group, and editorial work on journals (Bilingual Research Journal, Journal of Research in Rural Education, The Rural Educator). She is an editor of the NABE Journal of Research and Practice. In 2023, she established the Carolina Association for Bilingual Education (CarABE), where she serves on the board as Immediate Past President. She also founded the Florida Association for Bilingual Education in 2018.

Internationally, Dr. Coady serves as a reviewer for the international Fulbright Commission and has been a recipient of three Fulbright awards in Ukraine (2013), South Africa (2016), and Poland (2021-22), where she served as Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan).

Dr. Coady is the President of the 501(c)3 non-profit foundation LEAD (Foundation for Language Education and Development), founded in 2013, which provides educational funding and support for high-achieving multilingual and migrant students to attend college.

Dr. Coady works with the NC Department of Public Instruction for Multilingual Learners and regularly provides educator professional development (PD) support to rural school districts with ML students.

Contact Dr. Coady for school and community PD, assistance, or research for ML students.