Executive Committee & Leadership Team 2023-2024

Executive Committee (voting members)

Chair 2023-2024: Linda Lockett Brown, RDN, LDN, CLC

Chair-Elect 2023-2024: Sarah Elster, RDN, LDN

Past Chair 2023-2024: Miho Hatanaka, RDN

Treasurer 2022-2024: Manju Karkare, MS, RDN, LDN, CLT, FAND

Secretary 2023-2025: Cary Kreutzer, EdD, MPH, RDN, FAND

House of Delegates 2022-2025: Faye Berger Mitchell, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND

Nominating Committee Chair 2022-2024: Laura Bollinger, MS, RDN

Leadership Team

Communications 2023-2024: Melissa Groves Azzaro, RDN, LD

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Co-Chair 2023-2024: Elise Harrison, MS, RDN, CDN and Analy Gonzalez, MPH

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Associate: Regina Barrera Flores and Sarah Thomsen Ferreira, MS, MPH, RD, CDN, IFNCP, CHWC

Environment and Nutrition Chair 2022-2024: Alison Jordan, RDN

Member Engagement 2023-2024: Colleen Orbegoso, RDN

Mind-Body Therapy Chair 2022-2024: Pamela Malo, MHS, RD, KYT

Network Chair: Kathie Madonna Swift, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND, EBQ, MBCP

Newsletter Editor 2023-2024: Jena Savadsky Griffith, RDN, IHC

Copy Editor 2023-2024: Holly Van Poots, RDN, CSP, FAND

Newsletter CPE Editor 2023-2024: Staci Belcher, MS, RDN, LDN

Newsletter Editor/Botanicals 2023-2024: Dina Ranade, RDN, LD

Nominating Committee: Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes, MS, RDN, CDCES, LDN, NASM-WFS-CPT and Danelle LaFata, MA, RD, CSSD

Policy Advocacy Leader (PAL) 2021-2024: Chrissy Barth, MS, RDN, RYT

Policy Advocacy Associate 2023-2024: Jane Selitto, RDN

Professional Advancement Chair 2023-2025: Joseph Zastawny, RDN, LD

Sponsorship Chair 2022-2023: Valerie Warner, RD

Student Membership Chair 2023-2024: Rifqa Dacloush

Student Membership Associate 2023-2024: Abby Barth

Executive Director: Amy Jarck