Division Heads
Kathy Bond
Chair
Kathy has been chair of Norwescon three times, as well as multiple years as treasurer or business director. For Worldcon, Kathy was a legal advisor for Sasquan, operations division head for Worldcon 76, deputy division head of member and staff services for Dublin 2019, and member services division head for Chicon 8 until a month before con. Kathy coordinated the Hugo voter’s packet for Worldcon 76, Dublin 2019, and CoNZealand. A recovering academic, Kathy is a great person to have on your trivia team and has a day job as a labor lawyer.
Chris Young
Division Head – Convention Services
Chris Young has been working conventions since the early 80s. They have worked in operations, security, hospitality, and registration for local and regional cons throughout the Midwest, and occasional Worldcons (Chicon V and MidAmeriCon II). For the past two years they have run operations for The World Fantasy Convention. Their home con is Marcon in Columbus, Ohio (which they have been attending for over 40 years). Chris hails from the Northeast part of that great state, where they run IT and database administration for a statewide progressive non-profit.
Sheril Bogenrief
Division Head – Events
Sheril Bogenrief has been involved in running SF conventions since the mid 1990s. She has chaired and worked in various departments in both local and regional conventions in the Midwest. As far as Worldcons, Sheril has been events deputy division head for MidAmericon II, events co-division head for Worldcon 76, events division head for Discon III, deputy division head for Glasgow 2024, and guest of honor liaison co-area head for Chicon 8. Sheril ran programming for World Fantasy Convention 2023. She was the program coordinator for Costume-Con 24 (2006). For the past 12 years she has held the roles of convention chair, operations lead, venues liaison, and staff medic lead for AnimeIowa. In her day, job she uses her master’s degree in business management with a health care focus and Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree to work for a nonprofit that works with persons with intellectual disabilities.
Michelle Morrell
Division Head – Exhibits
Michelle has held numerous positions at Norwescon including member services director and secretary. Her special passion project is the Norwescon Little Free Library book exchange, where thousands of books get rehomed each year. She reviews contracts by day, prowls the Seattle goth scene by night, looks for any excuse to wear elf ears, and lives by the creed, “I read, therefore, I am.”
Sean McCoy
Division Head – Facilities
Angela Jones
Division Head – Finance
Angela has been involved in Worldcon volunteering for over 15 years, combining it with her full-time career as a jeweler. She’s an ongoing volunteer for Boskone as well as other conventions and her most recent position was division head – exhibits for Pemmi-Con. Sometimes she eats doughnuts.
Alan Bond
Division Head – Member Services
Alan Bond has been helping organize conventions for 15 years. After running events and convention services for Norwescon, he jumped to virtual operations, with a field promotion to show director for the Hugo Awards at ConZealand. This was followed over the next three weeks by pulling the Columbus 2020 NASFiC out of cancellation and mounting a successful three-track free virtual event. Since then he has been technical director for RoFcon, Norwescon, and Chicon 8.
SunnyJim Morgan
Division Head – Programming
SunnyJim has been involved with various Worldcon programming teams, has been the chair and vice-chair of Norwescon, headed programming for Norwescon eight times, and worked in a variety of other departments at a variety of local conventions. She worked professionally in the event industry in Seattle for several years.
Kevin Black
Division Head – Publications
Kevin was an editor in the program division for Discon III, the pocket program editor for Chicon 8, and has held innumerable staff positions over two decades at Norwescon, in recent years predominantly in publications. His convention job in publishing is a refuge from his day job as a state government lawyer. A bucket list goal is to change his name to Vroomfondel.
Keith Jewell
Division Head – Tech
Keith’s first Worldcon was Chicon 8, where they were head of virtual programming. While they typically get paid to work on cloud services or create theatrical sound designs, it’s also possible that you have seen their work in Ripley’s Believe It or Not. If you have a few minutes to spare, ask about the 1492 Papal conclave.
Gail Terman
Division Head – Virtual
Gail (she/they) has been volunteering at various conventions for the past 16 years, although she didn’t get involved in Worldcon until 2020, where she was last-minute help desk for CoNZealand. She’s also been part of the virtual divisions at Chicon 8 and Glasgow 2024, in addition to helping to run the virtual Arisia in 2021. She’s passionate about bringing Worldcon to the world through virtual content. In her spare time, Gail is a principal software engineer for a multinational corporation, sings in a few choruses, makes things out of fiber, and watches the Boston Red Sox.
Kathryn Duval
Division Head – WSFS
Kathryn has been volunteering at Worldcons in various roles for more than a decade, and at regional conventions for many years before that. She was deputy Hugo Award administrator in 2017 and the WSFS deputy division head in 2024. In her spare time, she paints plein air landscapes on her home island of Hawai’i.
Full Volunteer Organization Chart
- CHAIR: Kathy Bond
- Executive Administrator: Helen Montgomery
- Advisory Board: Loree Parker
- Charity Fundraising Coordinator: Jacqueline DeLisle
- Development: Sooshe Bot
- Outreach Staff: Ritika Rao
- Health Coordinator Area Head: Sonya Meyers
- Merchandise Team Lead: Riga Maier
- Assistant Merchandise Lead: Kit
- Staff: Alan Au, Melina Tustison, Michael Kapuscinski, Phil Jellen, Samantha Beeman, Thorn
- Passport Project Area Head: Jyoti Tripathi
- Ribbons Coordinator: Helen Montgomery
- Timeline: Darin Briskman
- Staff Services Division Head: Megan Fontaine (retired)
- Volunteers: Christine Ragan, Emergency Holographic Area Head: Helen Montgomery
- Staff: Aidan Grieve, Amy Kaplan, Elizabeth Griffith, Jana van der Walt, Janet Worley, Karl Pitt, Kyra Freestar, Laura Koehn, Maddie Foley, Martha van Gelder, Myke Gepharde, Nasa Wofford, Paul Michael Privateer, Peter Crozier, Rita Otto, Sienna Wofford, Sue Parsons, Tammy Wofford, Terri Weiner, Thomas McQueen, Pam Foye (Retired)
- Volunteer Newsletter: Christine Humphrey
- Volunteer Rewards Coordinator: Kate Wood
- CONVENTION SERVICES: Chris Young
- Con Office Area Head: Stephanie Duchin, Jill Mitchell (In Memoriam)
- Staff: Debra Schierbaum, Hillary Barth, Kathryn Michels, Jimmy Wardrope, Larry Goodhind, Matylda Naczynska, Michael Jackson, Nigel Parsons, Patrick McCullar
- Deputy Division Head: Ruth Lichtwardt
- Dockmaster: Gene Bennett
- Staff: Jake Granger
- Lines: Jim Young
- Assistant Area Head: Jeff Orth
- Staff: Athena Sparrow, David Teich, Elaine Isaak, Kate Campbell, Robert Cauley
- Logistics: Daniel Pawtowski, Eric Pawtowski
- Staff: Bill Boyde, James Dunson, Yvonne Pawtowski
- MIMO: Justin Cowdrey
- Staff: Aaron Noble, Alexander Snow, Benjamin Wallin, Bob Newgard, Drew Nauman, Joseph Meltzer, Joshua Galvin, Lakshanan Sivananda, Liz Zitzow, Luke Neu, Mena Nizam, Nathan Rohde, Paula Thomas, Phil Koltko, Tim Keber, Todd MacDermid, Watson Ladd
- Operations Director: Mowgli Assor, Robbie Bourget (Retired)
- Lead Rover: Robert Gallup
- Staff: Andrew Montgomery, Bethene Britt, Chris Meyers, Chris Wozny, Cora Irvine, David Palmer, David Schlosser, Derek Blackwell, Ellen Weingart, Forrest Barnum, Gary Feldbaum, James Stegall, Jay Aspinall, Jona Chen, Ken Hullett, Marie Vibbert, Mary Cannon, Pat Maher, Patrick McManamon, Stan Paulson
- Con Office Area Head: Stephanie Duchin, Jill Mitchell (In Memoriam)
- EVENTS: Sheril Bogenrief, Matt Ravenmoore (Retired)
- Adviser to Events Division Head: Carl z! Zwanzig
- Events Staff: Amanda Lamkin, Anna O’Connell, Patrick McManamon
- Back Stage Area Head: Ayla Marie O’Ryan
- Concerts Area Head: Lynn Gold
- Staff: Diana Koivunen, Douglas Davidson, Mary Mulholland, Patrick McManamon, Tammy Capp
- Deputy Division Head:
- Executive Administrator: Jeremy Ghea (Retired), Sarah Goodman
- Front of House Area Head: Susan Albrecht
- General Staff: Ashley Moser, David Hirsch, Ed McCutchan, Keith Gremban, Nate Miles
- Hugo Awards Ceremony Director: Patty Wells, Randall Shepherd
- Staff: Laura Woodney, Lillie Wells, Sean Wells, Vincent Docherty
- Pre-Ceremony Reception Coordinators: Cathy Green, Jerry Kaufman, John Lorentz, Ruth Sachter, Suzanne Tompkins
- Main Stage Manager: Alison Lynn
- Masquerade Co-Directors: Richard Stephens, Sue Finkle
- Masquerade Emcee: Dan Murphy
- Masquerade Stage Crew: Kielan Donahue, Joel Finkle, Lori Meltzer
- Newsletter Writer: Steph Mills
- Nightlife Area Head: Jeremy Odden
- Staff: Duante Barnett (Retired)
- Opening & Closing Ceremonies Area Head: Audrey Williams, Will Morton
- Second Stage: Ben Tobin, Dan Scauzillo
- Tech Liaison: Geoffrey Leventhal (Retired)
- Assistant to Tech Advisor: Fred Bauer
- EXHIBITS: Michelle Morrell
- Deputy Division Head: Alex Demboski
- Executive Administrator: Katrina Marier
- Art Show: Alex Demboski
- Art Show Second: Sam Demboski
- Print Show Steward: Felicia Martinez, Stephanie Cass
- Staff: Alexa Smith, Amy Mauldon, Anna Coles, Caroline Westra, Dan Ritter, Don Crossman, Erin Cairns, Ezra, Jamison Beaver, Joseph Wheeler, Julie Demobski, Kate Clark, Katie Smith, Mari Kennedy, Maria Daggett Eskinazi, Mark Purtill, Martha Schaefer, Tomi Welch, Tracy Furutani
- Costume Displays and Costume Repair Station:
- Staff: Julie Zetterberg Sardo, Seaboe
- Crafting Lounge Coordinator: Alice Ryan, Veronica Lacquement (retired)
- Crafting Lounge Assistant: Malina Hubler
- Dealers’ Room: Amy Gembala
- Dealers’ Room Second: Andrea Wasson
- Dealers’ Area Assistant: Bill Gembala, Ezra
- Exhibit Staff: Andre Czausov, Andrew Chang, Arielle Wincek, Clara Ward, Mike Mittman, Pattie Mathieu, Reno Wincek, Seth Taylor
- Fan Tables: Jerry Johnson
- Fan Tables Second: Bill Cole
- Fanzine Lounge Coordinator: Jerry Kaufman, Suzanne Tompkins
- Freebies Lounge Lead and Author Liaison: Palmer Pickering
- Freebies Lounge Publisher Liaison: Sara Tompson
- Freebies Lounge Assistant: Mike Mollman
- Worldcon Cantina Area Head: Jeanine Swanson
- Staff: Michael Pinnick
- Move-in Location Assistance, Control Center Staff: Jeri Lynn Cornish
- Pinball Display:
- Staff: Todd Clark
- Special Exhibits Staff: Bridget Lloyd, Lorian Taylor, Randy Smith
- Seacon 1961 Staff: Tuesday Kuykendall
- Guest Of Honor Displays: Elvi Dalgaard
- Staff: Erin Cairns
- FACILITIES: Sean McCoy
- Catering Area Head: Gay Ellen Dennett
- Deputy Division Head: Mike Willmoth
- Decorator Liaison: Bruce Farr, Chris Marble
- Hotel Liaison Team: Jim Mann, Mike Willmoth
- Parties Area Head: Wm Salt Hale
- Staff: Sarah Goldberg
- FINANCE: Angela Jones
- Co-Deputy Division Head: Alexia Hebel, Bruce Farr, Joni Brill Dashoff
- Budget: Alexia Hebel, Bruce Farr
- Convention Treasurer: Eric Weber
- At Con Treasurer: Joanne Lawler
- Cash Office Manager: Annie Yotova
- At Con Treasurer: Joanne Lawler
- Liaison to Divisions: Linda Deneroff
- Finance Staff: Melody MacDonald
- MEMBER SERVICES: Alan Bond
- Deputy Division Head: Debora Godfrey
- Accessibility: Meredith Peruzzi
- Staff: Jean Baker, Willow Clark, Zamesta
- Admin Staff: Leah List
- Bag Check Area Head: Donna Strain-Poling
- Staff: Daniel Campbell
- Childcare: Laura Ellis
- Code of Conduct/Listeners: Dybbuk Klezmer, Melissa Lanning (co-AHs)
- CoC Staff: Amy Sochard, Chanie Beckman, Eli Isaacs, Giani Sirignano, J’nae Rae Spano, Marguerite Smith, Pam Burr
- Listeners Staff: Chanie Beckman, Kaitlin Schmidt, Necia Quast, Stephanie Franklin, Ugo Bellagamba
- Community Fund: Dawn Shaw, Stefanie Riehle
- Staff: Jade Tunnell
- At-Con Info Desk Area Head: Ami Pendley
- Staff: Elfie Nelson, Laura Majerus, Rob Lopresti, Ruth Pitt, Valerie Bentivegna
- Pre-Con Info Desk: Terry Neill
- Staff: Ruchira Mathur, Sienna Lovelock-Burtt
- LGBTQIA+ Lounge Lead: Lai Kiirnodel
- NFP Hosting: Don Glover
- Registration Pre-Con: Kate Wood
- Registration At-Con: David Guon
- Deputy Area Head: Virginia Knight
- Staff: Amy Thomson, Beck Wren, Brooks Harrelson, Carla Viltz, Christian Ivey, Colleen Philippi, Dana Conard, Denise Schuh, Ed Beecher (In Memoriam), Heather Jones, James Geluso, Jeffrey Cornish, J. Franklin March, Jesper Stage, Joe Burch, John Day, Kristina Forsyth, Marsha Glassner, Michael Stearns, Mikolaj Kowalewski, Mindy Sherwood-Lewis, Olle Dahlberg, Peter De Weerdt, Reg Franchi, Sandhyaa PM, Sandi Hogben, Seanara Coyote, Stefanie Riehle, Susan Johnsen, Tazamisha Alexander, Vivian Abraham, Wai Wong
- Deputy Area Head: Virginia Knight
- Safer Spaces: Paul Schneider, Shavon Walker
- Staff: Ember Cooke, Jonathan Pierre-Puckett, Mir Plemmons
- Teen Lounge Area Head: Stefanie Kahler
- Staff: Amelia Kahler, Jane Chen, Randel
- Visa Help: Tim
- PROGRAM: SunnyJim Morgan
- Autographs Area Coordinator: Regina Renate
- Staff: Phil Koltko
- Film Festival: Shawn Marier
- Judges: Arendse Lund, Diane McRae-Hardin, KinMarcus Ferate, Sarah Scrivano
- Fringe: Amanda Myre, Christopher Fleming, George Reilly, Omaha Sternberg, Valerie Bentivegna
- Gaming Coordinator: Mark Walters, Thomas Smith
- Green Room: Aaron Bray, Andrew Stevens, Deby Fredericks, Jeff Wheeler, Jerome Villegas, Joseph Wheeler, Rebecca Huddleston, Renny Christopher, Victoria Johnson
- Guest of Honor Liaison: Amanda Wakaruk, Elise Stephens, Helen Umberger
- Hands-On Workshop Monitor: Mark Davey
- Assistant to Kidcon Lead: Margo Feather
- Panelist Surrogate: Annette Boon, Stacey Ashton
- Program Ops:
- Staff: Bernie Strub, Carolina Gomez Lagerlof, Carrie Callahan, Elizabeth Hammack, Emma Foster, Greg Gadow, Judy Kullman, Meghan Lancaster, Michael Nelson, Perrianne Lurie, Rodger Burns, Scot Oliver, Steve Wilson
- Program Team: Bobbi Armbruster, Chanie Beckman, Jaitee Pitts, James Hay, Lydia Valentine, Yasser Bahjatt
- Props Contest Area Head: Tanya Glaser
- Props Contest Judges: Joey Parrish, Kendra Tornheim, Saoirse Burleson, Scott Lefton
- Single Pattern Contest Coordinators: Debbie Bretschneider, Kevin Roche
- Software Development: Martin Tithonium
- Track Leads:
- Art Track Lead: Scott Lefton
- Academic Track Lead: Doug Van Belle
- Biological Science Track Lead: Jake McKinzie
- Britcon Track Lead: Michael Citrak
- Comic Track Lead: Terry Gant
- Conrunning/Fandom Track Lead: Laurie Mann
- Costume Track Lead: Sandra Manning
- Culture & DEI Track Lead: Rebecca Demarest
- Dance/Movement Track Lead: Susan de Guardiola
- Editing/Publishing Track Lead: Jennifer Brozek
- Fanfic Track Lead: Erica Frank
- Fantasy Track Lead: Grant Riddell
- Futurism Track Co-Leads: Brenda Cooper, PJ Manney
- Games Track Lead: Eleri Hamilton
- Genre History Track Lead: Karen Anderson
- Hands-On Workshops Track Lead: Scott MacHaffie
- History Track Lead: Jonnalyhn Prill
- Horror Track Lead: Clay Vermulm
- Indie Publishing Track Lead: Jessie Kwak
- Local Flavor Track Lead: Wm Salt Hale
- Military Track Lead: Russell Ervin
- Music Track Lead: Marc Grossman
- Non-Western Lit Track Lead: Leonardo Espinoza Benavides
- Other Track Lead: Tabby L. Rose
- Poetry Track Lead: Brian Garrison
- Popular Media Track Lead: Crystal Lloyd
- Science Fiction Track Lead:
- Space Track Lead: Peter Glaskowsky
- Tech Track Lead: Mike Brennan
- Teen Track Lead: Matt Barr
- Writing Classes Track Lead: Cat Rambo
- Writing Track Lead: Greg Wilson, Marie Bilodeau
- Young Adult (YA) Track Lead: Amber Morrell
- Youth Track Lead: Karin Llyr
- Virtual Content Lead: Jennifer Rhorer
- Virtual Program Staff: Kirsti Thomas
- Autographs Area Coordinator: Regina Renate
- PUBLICATIONS: Kevin Black
- Deputy Division Heads: Mark Hodges
- Ads: Kees van Toorn, John Granacki (Retired)
- Daily ‘Zine: Caitlin Cormier
- Lead Editor for At-Con Publications: BE Allatt
- Editors: Carissa Wolf, Debbie King, Emily Teng, Erin Steidl, Judy Johnson, Kaitlin Schmidt, Kat Richardson, Kate Waterous, Maxx Raven, Sarah J. Goldberg, Stevie Mathre
- Graphic Design: Cara Sutherland, Devin Jacobsen, Lilly Tang, Rob Carlos, Scott Douwes, Shelley George
- Guidebook Editor: Kevin Black
- Guidebook Assistant: Valari Westeren
- Memorials: Steven H Silver
- Newsletter: Cheryl Dyson
- Photography Area Head: Kelcey Bauer
- Photographers: Andrew Williams, Brian Richardson, Janice Bauer, Jim Housell, John Jinneman, Kaitrin Acuna, Sabrina Nelson, Zoe Cai
- Pocket Program: Bill Child
- Press Office: Juan Sanmiguel
- Press Office Staff: Ashley Fakava, Cookie Hiponia, Debbie King, Don Glover, Fredrik Coulter, Shana Hadi
- Progress Report: John Berry
- Restaurant Guide: Paul Carpenter, Julie McGalliard, Kate Waterous
- Signs Area Head: Tabby L. Rose
- Social Media: Dawn Gallor
- Blog Editor-in-Chief: BE Allatt
- Blog Writers: Brandon O’Brien, Fifi Ding, Gideon Marcus, James Davis Nicoll, Janice L. Newman, Jason Sacks, Kris Vyas-Myall, Rachel S. Cardasco, SunnyJim Morgan
- Souvenir Program Book: dQniel Kaufman
- Managing Editor: Ella Kliger
- Website: Cee Chen, Michael Hanscom
- Writing Area Head: Ella Kliger
- Writers: Aigner Loren Wilson, Jonah Barnett, Mary Cummins, Shaun Manning
- TECH: Keith Jewell
- Deputy Division Head: Shevek
- Cloud Computing Meteorologist: Grant Dobbe
- Google Suite Admin and Onboarding: Karin May, Robert Quimbey
- IT Backend Developer: Christopher Ambler
- IT: Keith Jewell
- Program AV: Ian Shaw, John Kono
- Stages AV: Alex Kiwerski, Scott Dorsey
- Video Area Head: Joseph Weinstein
- AV Tech: Ben Schreiber
- VIRTUAL: Gail Terman (Division Head)
- Deputy Division Head: Anna Bradley
- Discord Area Head: Danielle Tilley
- Discord Moderator: Clyde Jones, Eric Brown, Emily January, Eric Weingart, Lenore Jones, Louise Postelthwaite, Pandora Young, Riley Young, Sarah Elkins, Sophie Hammond, Tina Anderson
- Discord Staff: Fan Wu
- Staff: Alan Bond, Alex Tischer, Anne Davenport, Declan J, Raymond Low
- Head of Gaming: Dennis Duquette
- LED Board Area Head: Darin Briskman, Ilana Grune
- Scavenger Hunt: Anna Bradley
- Software Team: Andrew McMillan, Andrew January, Andrew McMillan
- Streaming Area Head: Dragos Ruiu
- Staff: Robert Yuen
- Tech Host: Alex Morgan, Carolyn Frank, Eric Hildeman, Eric Weingart, Gloria Albasi, Mick Sewell, Penelope Flynn, Sarah Elkins, Tina Anderson
- Virtual Info: Louise Postelthwaite, Maciej Matuszewski, Terry Neill
- Voice of Online: Anne Keck, Craig Glassner, Ellen Saunders, Erika Morton, Jason Adams, Jim Leinweber, Linda Pierce, Rebecca Lynde-Scott, Renee Reavis, Scot McIntosh, Tazamisha Alexander, Tom Walker, Zac Wood
- WSFS: Kathryn Duval
- Deputy Division Head: Rosemary Parks
- Business Meeting Presiding Officer: Jesi Lipp
- Deputy Presiding Officer: Warren Buff
- Second Deputy Presiding Officer and Parliamentarian: Martin Pyne
- Secretary: Ira Alexandre
- Timekeeper: OR
- Staff: Alana Vincent, Ben Hanne, Chris (Glug) Hensely, Winston Pei
- Business Meeting Help: Terry Neill
- Hugo Administrator: Kathryn Duval
- Deputy Hugo Administrator: Rosemary Parks
- Hugo Award Trophy Wrangler: Spike, Tom Becker
- Hugo Finalist Liaison: Alison Scott, Gisele Peterson, John Coxon
- Hugo Help Coordinator: Rosemary Parks, Terry Neill
- Hugo Packet Coordinator: Jed Hartman
- Hugo Staff: John Coxon, Liz Batty, Sam Winkler, Scott Bobo, Zoe Wells
- Site Selection Coordinator: Tim Szczesuil
- Deputy Site Selection Coordinator: Alison Scott
- Staff: Covert Beach, Donald Eastlake, Geri Sullivan
- Software Support: Chris Rose
Org chart current as of .
