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Chair: Suzi Baxter, PhD, RD, LD, FADA, FAND
Chair-elect: Jackie Bastiaans, RD, LD
Secretary: Wendy Wittenbrook, MA, RD, CSP, LD, FAND
Treasurer: Sharon Lemons, MS, RDN, CSR, LD, FAND
Delegate: Mary Russell, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND, FASPEN
Awards and Grants Coordinator: Christine Ferguson, PhD, RD, LD
Communications Director: Neva Cochran, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
- Website Coordinator: Liz Dunn, MS, RD, LDN
- Social Media Coordinator: Rene Runions Pearson (dietetic intern)
- Newsletter Editor: Heidi Kiehl, MS, RDN, LD, CNSC
- Newsletter Associate Editor: Ashleigh Heinrich, MS, RDN
- E-blast coordinator: Arielle Buckley, Dietetic Intern
Education Director: Alicia Conner, MA, RDN
- Webinar/Continuing Education Coordinator: Katie Brown, MS, RD, CDN
- Education Committee member: Elizabeth Humphrey, Dietetic Intern
IDEA Liaison: Cheryl Harris, MPH, RD
- IDEA Vice Liaison: Joan Thomas, MS, RDN, LDN
Membership Director: Regina Taefi (Dietetic Intern)
- Vice Membership Director: Caitlin Green, MS, RD, LD (member)
- Student Member Coordinator: vacant
Nominating Committee Chair: Lacey Gammon, MPH, RD, LD
- Nominating Committee Chair-elect: Tom Smurr, RD
- Volunteer Coordinator/Nominating Committee member: Amy Epting, MA, RD, CSG, LDN
Public Policy Liaison (PAL): Darrius Marable, RDN, CDM, CFPP
- PAL committee member: Cathy Conway, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES
Sponsorship Coordinator: vacant