Executive Committee & Leadership Team 2024-2025

Executive Committee (voting members)

Chair 2024-2025: Sarah Elster, RDN, LDN

Chair Elect 2024-2025: Holly Van Poots, RDN, CSP, FAND

Past Chair 2024-2025: Linda Lockett Brown, RDN, LDN, CLC

Treasurer 2024- 2026: Paulina Lee, MS, RD, LD

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

House of Delegates 2022-2025: Nadine Braunstein, PhD, RD, LDN, FAND

Nominating Committee Chair 2022-2024: Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes, MS, RDN, CDCES, LDN, NASM-WFS-CPT 

Leadership Team

FNCE Planning Chairs 2024-2026:  Analy Gonzalez, MPH, Colleen Orbegoso, RDN

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) CoChairs 2023-2025:  Analy Gonzalez, MPH and Elise Harrison, MS, RDN, CDN

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Committee 2023-2025:  Chair Elect, Sarah Thomsen Ferreira, MS, MPH, RD, CDN, IFNCP, CHWCRegina Barrera Flores, studentDarina Shannon, student, Jessica Angulo, student,  and Angel Cummings

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

Nominating Committee Chair Elect:  Rima Kleiner, MS, RDN, LDN

Nominating Committee Member: Chrissy Barth, MS, RDN, RYT 

Policy Advocacy Leader (PAL) 2024-2027: Manju Karkare, MS, RDN, LDN, CLT, FAND 

Policy Advocacy Associate 2024-2025: Jane Selitto, RDN

Professional Advancement Chair 2024-2026: Cindy Carroll, MS, RD, LDN, RN

Social Media Chair 2024-2026:  Summer Xia, student 

Sponsorship Chair 2024-2026: Valerie Warner, RD

Student Membership Chair 2023-2025: Rifqa Dacloush

Communications Workgroup Leader 2024-2025: Melissa Groves Azzaro, RDN, LD

Member Engagement Workgroup Leader 2024-2025: Colleen Orbegoso, RDN

Executive Director: Amy Jarck

Regional Ambassadors

Region 1 Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky


Annamarie Rodriguez, RDN, LD, FAND

Region 2 California, Hawaii, International

Melanie Murphy Richter, MS, RDN

Region 3 Alaska, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Idaho

Pamela Malo, MHS, RD, KYT

Region 4 Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah

Tina Alexander, RDN, CDCES

Region 5 Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas

Shana McClard, RD, LDN

Region 6 Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota

Hannah Chamberland

Region 7 Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island,

Vermont 

Andrea Valenti, RDN, LDN, CDN, IFNCP

Region 8 Delaware, DC, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia

Patricia Guay-Berry and Nancy Patin Falini

Region 9 North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

Jena Savadsky Griffith, RDN, IHC

Region 10 Alabama, Georgia

Joycelyn Peterson, DrPH, MPH, RDN

Region 11 New York

Noelle Citarella, MS, RDN, CDN, IFNCP

Region 12 Florida

Vicky Porter, MS