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The Society for News Design

1602 Belle View Blvd, Alexandria, Virginia 22308.

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As of 3 January 2020, below find the full list of SND elected officers and appointed directors, committee chairs, program directors. Last updated 3 January 2020.

Officers • Staff • Regional directors • Program directors

Board of Directors

The business of the Society is governed by its Board of Directors. Each are dues-paying members of the Society, and either elected officers (President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer, immediate Past President) or appointed directors (Regional and Program). The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors consists of the officers, executive director, one regional director, one program director and three appointees from the Media/Journalism community at large, not necessarily SND members.

Board member responsibilities and accountabilities: Ultimate responsibility for the association rests with the Board of Directors. The responsibility is recognized by state and federal laws; legally, the Board is responsible for the activities, employees and fiscal integrity of the association. The appropriate role of the Board is to set policies that will ensure it fulfills its legal and professional responsibilities to the association. The Board should set the tone for dynamic and aggressive leadership within the association. Specific responsibility areas include:
• Ensuring membership needs are met;
• Approving and evaluating all the programs and activities of the association;
• Planning the future direction of the association;
• Establishing broad policies to guide the operation of the association;
• Selecting and hiring the chief staff executive and monitoring and evaluating the staff executive’s performance;
• and, Setting financial objectives and monitoring their achievement.

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Executive Committee – 10 members, mix of elected and appointed: Consists of the elected officers, the executive director, the past-president, a representative from the program directors (elected annually from the group), a representative from the regional directors (elected annually from the group) and three at-large members, one of whom has traditionally been the International Relations Director.

Duties of the Executive Committee: Sets agendas for semi-annual board meetings and to handle any contracts and evaluations of staff members

Current committee:

• Aly Morris, current President (email Aly)
• Joe Greco, current Vice-President – designate (email Joe)
• Ryan Sparrow, Programs representative (email Ryan)
• Steve Dorsey, At large (email Steve)
• Paige Connor, At large (email Paige)

Officers – One-year terms, elected

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President — Alyson Morris
Features designer, Chicago Tribune
[email protected] » @alyson_morris