September 7, 2016 Update: Voting has ended for the election of NASW's new board members. We'll do our best to announce the results by the end of the day on Tuesday, September 13. Stay tuned and thank you to everyone who participated. Make your choices for the fifteen 2016-2018 NASW officers and board members. Meet the candidates by clicking on their names below for candidate statements, clicking here or perusing the summer issue of ScienceWriters magazine arriving this month in your mailbox. You can cast your ballot in one of two ways: by registering your choices and designating a proxy online or voting in person. Use your personal email invitation (sent to all regular members on August 23) to designate your proxy and choices within the online system. If you prefer to vote in person, plan to join us in New York City on Tuesday, September 6, for a meeting and social event:
Elect NASW's officers and catch up with fellow members
Tuesday, September 6
5:30-7:30 p.m.
The Roosevelt Hotel New York
45 East 45th Street
New York, NY 10017
www.theroosevelthotel.com
Online proxies close at 3 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, September 6. If you issue a proxy online and vote in person, only the in-person vote will count.
Board candidates for 2016-2018
The upcoming two-year term begins October 28 just prior to the ScienceWriters2016 meeting.
Here's a glimpse at the 2016-2018 NASW Board slate. To view the candidate statements and photos in PDF, click here.
Officers (4)
- Laura Helmuth**, the Washington Post, president
- Siri Carpenter, freelance and The Open Notebook, vice president
- Jill Adams**, freelance, secretary
- Robert Frederick**, American Scientist, treasurer
Candidates for board members at large (11 positions available)
- Nsikan Akpan, PBS NewsHour
- Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato, freelance
- Brooke Borel, freelance
- Rebecca Boyle, freelance
- Francie Diep, Pacific Standard
- Cynthia Graber, freelance
- Mari N. Jensen, University of Arizona College of Science
- Kathryn Jepsen, Symmetry
- Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory
- A’ndrea Elyse Messer**, Penn State
- Seth Mnookin**, MIT and freelance
- Michael E. Newman, National Institute of Standards and Technology and freelance
- Kendall Powell, freelance
- Sandeep Ravindran, freelance
- Hillary Rosner**, freelance
- Jill Sakai**, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University
- John Travis, Science
- Emily Willingham**, freelance
- Alexandra Witze, Nature, Science News
- Philip Yam, Simons Foundation
** current board member
We are grateful to the candidates for volunteering to help lead the organization and grateful to the following current board members who are cycling off the board, having given years of service to the organization. Our deepest thanks to these retiring board members, many of whom will continue to volunteer in other capacities:
Retiring board members
- Robin Marantz Henig, president, freelance, first elected to the board in 1998
- Deborah Franklin, secretary, NPR, first elected to the board in 2010
- Jeff Grabmeier, the Ohio State University, first elected to the board in 2010
- Michael Lemonick, Climate Central, first elected to the board in 2010
- Dave Mosher, Popular Science, first elected to the board in 2014
- Brian Switek, freelance, first elected to the board in 2014
And, finally, special thanks to this year's Nominating Committee members. Chaired by NASW president Robin Marantz Henig, they worked over the course of several months this spring to identify candidates and help ensure a diverse slate of volunteers ready to work hard on behalf of NASW.
2016 Nominating Committee
- Robin Marantz Henig, chair
- Melissa Blouin
- Richard Harris
- Virginia Hughes
- Rob Irion
- Apoorva Mandavilli
- Emily Sohn
Please join us this fall in San Antonio, Texas, during ScienceWriters2016 as we welcome our new board members and pay tribute to our retiring board members.
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