2024 Elections: Slate of Candidates Announced
ATA will hold its regularly scheduled elections at the upcoming ATA 65th Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon, October 30-November 2, 2024, to elect the following:
- President-Elect (one unexpired position to be filled for a remaining term of one year).
- Director (three regular positions, each for a three-year term).
- Director (one unexpired position to be filled for a remaining term of one year).
All candidates for director positions will appear under the same ballot item, with longer positions being filled successively by candidates who receive the highest number of votes and the shorter, unexpired term positions being filled by the candidate(s) receiving the next highest number of votes.
Additional nominations, supported by a written petition signed by no fewer than 60 voting members and the nominee’s written acceptance statement, must be received by the Nominating and Leadership Development Committee by July 7. Acceptance statements and petitions should be submitted to Nominating and Leadership Development Committee Chair (NLDC) Karen Tkaczyk (nominations@firstnews-extra.com).
The candidates proposed by the Nominating and Leadership Development Committee are:
President-elect (one-year term):
Viktoryia Baum
Andy Benzo
Director (three positions, each for a three-year term)
Isabel Asensio
Jason Jolley
Jessie Liu
Marcela Renna
Jaime Russell
Yasha Saebi
Marifer Sager
Romina Marazzato Sparano
The elections will be online. Voting members will be sent their proxy voting information in mid-September. Candidate statements will be featured in the September/October issue of The ATA Chronicle and on ATA’s website.
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