Committee and Staff

Division Heads

Kathy Bond
Chair

Kathy, a white woman with short dark hair, sitting outside on a rocky pacific northwest beach on a grey day, wearing sunglasses and a blue-and-black jacket.

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, a white man with a bald head and slightly graying brown beard, wearing glasses and a collared tropical flower patterned shirt shirt, in front of a shelf of books.

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, a woman with straight brown hair, with red horn rim half frame glasses, wearing a grey, maroon, and yellow t-shirt.

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 Morrell, a white woman with long straight dark brown hair, wearing a headband with veil and feathers and a black top, standing in front of a full bookcase.

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, a white man with a greying, light-brown beard, wearing a dark shirt, sunglasses, and tan fedora, in front of a chain link fence with trees and buildings in the background.

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, a white woman with long wavy red hair, wearing a white top under a maroon and gold bodice, against a black background.

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, a white man with short bright blue hair, wearing a black t-shirt, outside in a Pacific Northwest forest and surrounded by tall trees.

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 Jewell, a whit man with short curly brown hair and muttonchops, wearing a green and black patterned shirt, standing in front of what appears to be a carnival ride sign.

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.

Cassidy
Division Head – WSFS

A small white cat with one black ear, wearing a black bow tie, sitting on a grey couch.

Cassidy has been involved in Worldcon volunteering since working briefly on DisCon III, followed by serving as Hugo finalist liaison for Chicon 8. Cassidy also spends time fundraising for various children’s health charities as part of their quilting/running community, and volunteering at other organizations as part of their full-time job.

Full Staff Organization Chart

  • CHAIR: Kathy Bond
    • Executive Administrator: Helen Montgomery
    • Advisory Board: Loree Parker
    • Development: Sooshe Bot
      • Outreach Staff: Ritika Rao
    • Timeline: Darin Briskman
    • Staff Services Division Head: Megan Fontaine (retired)
    • Volunteers: Christine Ragan, Emergency Holographic Area Head: Helen Montgomery
      • Staff Lounge Monitor: Crystal Bolster, Janet Worley, Myke Gepharde, Peter Crozier
      • Staff: Amy Kaplan, Elizabeth Griffith, Greg Emil, Kyra Freestar, Mystery Post, Nasa Wofford, Pam Foye, Shannon Wick, Sienna Wofford, Sue Parsons, Tammy Wofford, Terri Weiner
      • Volunteer Newsletter: Christine Humphrey
  • CONVENTION SERVICES: Chris Young
    • Con Office Area Head: Jill Mitchell
      • Staff: Kathryn Michels, Jimmy Wardrope, Larry Goodhind, Patrick McCullar, Stephanie Duchin
    • 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: Yvonne Pawtowski
    • MIMO: Justin Cowdrey
      • Staff: Aaron Noble, Benjamin Wallin, Bob Newgard, Jean Beurlet, Lakshanan Sivananda, Luke Neu, Mena Nizam, Nathan Rohde, Todd MacDermid, Todd MacDermid, Watson Ladd
    • Operations Director: Mowgli Assor, Robbie Bourget
      • Staff: Forrest Barnum, Marie Vibbert, Pat Maher
    • Rovers/Safety Area Head: Robert Gallup
      • Staff: Andrew Montgomery, Jay Aspinall, Jona Chen
  • EVENTS: Sheril Bogenrief, Matt Ravenmoore (Retired)
    • Adviser to Events Division Head: Carl Zwanzig
    • Concerts Area Head: Lynn Gold
    • Deputy Division Head:
    • Executive Administrator: Jeremy Ghea (Retired), Sarah Goodman
    • Front of House Area Head: Susan Albrecht
    • General Staff: Ashley Moser, David Hirsch, Keith Gremban, Nate Miles
    • Hugo Awards Ceremony Director: Patty Wells, Randall Shepherd
      • Staff: Amanda Lamkin, Cathy Green, John Lorentz, Ruth Sachter, Suzanne Tompkins
    • Main Stage Manager: Alison VanSacker
    • Masquerade Emcee: Dan Murphy
    • Masquerade Stage Crew: Kielan Donahue, Lori Meltzer
    • Newsletter Writer: Steph Mills
    • Nightlife: Duante Barnett (Retired)
    • Second Stage: Ben Tobin
    • Tech Liaison: Geoffrey Leventhal (Retired)
  • EXHIBITS: Michelle Morrell
    • Deputy Division Head: Alex Demboski
    • Executive Administrator: Katrina Marier
    • Art Show: Alex Demboski
      • Art Show Second: Sam Demboski
      • Print Show Steward: Sig Hall
      • Staff: Alexa Smith, Caroline Westra, Erin Cairns, Janet Bruesselbach, Tomi Welch
    • Costume Displays and Costume Repair Station:
      • Staff: Julie Zetterberg Sardo, Seaboe
    • Crafting Lounge Coordinator: Veronica Lacquement
      • Assistant: Razz Faeling
    • Dealers’ Room: Amy Gembala
      • Dealers’ Room Second: Andrea Wasson
    • Exhibit Layout Lead: Caryn Meyer
    • Exhibit Layout Second: Leslie Benjamin
    • Fan Tables: Jerry Johnson
      • Fan Tables Second: Bill Cole, Tonya Clark
    • 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
    • Member Lounge Onsite Host: Jeanine Swanson
      • Staff: Michael Pinnick
    • Move-in Location Assistance, Control Center Staff: Jeri Lynn Cornish
    • Pinball Display:
      • Staff: Todd Clark
    • Special Exhibits Staff:
      • Displays Outreach:
      • Guest Of Honor Displays: Elvi Dalgaard, Sig Hall
        • Staff: Erin Cairns
    • Static Science and Technology Displays:
      • Staff:
  • FACILITIES: Sean McCoy
    • Deputy Division Head: Mike Willmoth
    • Decorator Liaison: Chris Marble
    • Hotel Liaison Team: Jim Mann, Mike Willmoth
    • Party Co-Coordinator: Salt Hale
  • 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
    • Liaison to Divisions: Linda Deneroff
    • Finance Staff: Melody MacDonald, Terry Fong
  • MEMBER SERVICES: Alan Bond
    • Deputy Division Head: Debora Godfrey
    • Accessibility: Anne Killpack, Zamesta
      • Accessibility Advisor: Meredith Peruzzi
      • Staff: Anne Killpack, Willow Clark
    • Admin Staff: Leah List
    • Childcare: Laura Ellis
    • Code of Conduct/Listeners: Dybbuk Klezmer, Melissa Lanning (co-AHs)
      • Staff: J’nae Rae Spano, Kaitlin Schmidt
    • Community Fund: Dawn Shaw, Stefanie Riehle
      • Staff: Jade Tunnell
    • At-Con Info Desk Area Head: Jules Barnes
      • Staff:
    • Pre-Con Info Desk: Terry Neill
      • Staff:
    • NFP Hosting: Don Glover
    • Registration Pre-Con: Kate Wood
    • Registration At-Con: David Guon
      • Deputy Area Head: Virginia Knight
        • Staff: Amy Thomson, Colleen Philippi, Ed Beecher, Greg Emil, Jeffrey Cornish, Jesper Stage, John Day, Kristina Forsyth, Marah Searle-Kovacevic, Michael Stearns, Peter De Weerdt, Susan Johnsen, Wai Wong
    • Safer Spaces: Paul Schneider, Shavon Walker
      • Staff: Ember Cooke, Mir Plemmons
    • Visa Help: Tim
  • PROGRAM: SunnyJim Morgan
    • Autographs Area Coordinator: Regina Renate
    • Film Festival: Shawn Marier
      • Judges: Arendse Lund, Chris CookSussan, Diane McRae-Hardin, Jupiter Haehn, KinMarcus Ferate, Sarah Scrivano
    • Fringe: Amanda Myre, Becca Rust
    • Gaming Coordinator: Mark Walters, Thomas Smith
    • Green Room: Rebecca Huddleston, Renny Christopher, Victoria Johnson
    • Guest of Honor Liaison: Amanda Wakaruk, Billie Bloebaum, Elise Stephens, Helen Umberger
    • Hands-On Workshop Monitor: Mark Davey
    • Panelist Vetting: Stacy Ashton
      • Staff: Erin Sehnandoah Baker, Jennifer Mace, Robb Beggs
    • Panelist Surrogate: Annette Boon, Stacey Ashton
    • Program Ops: Scot Oliver
      • Staff: Bernie Strub, Carolina Gomez Lagerlof, Judy Kullman, Meghan Lancaster, Michael Nelson, Rodger Burns
    • Program Team: Bobbi Armbruster, Channie Beckman, Jaitee Pitts, James Hay, Lydia Valentine, Olav Rockne, Yassir Bahjatt
    • Program Vetting Staff: Annette Boon
    • 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: Salt Hale
      • Military Track Lead: Russell Ervin
      • Music Track Lead: Marc Grossman
      • Non-Western Lit Track Lead: Leonardo Espinoza Benavides
      • Other Track Lead: Tammy Murphy
      • Poetry Track Lead: Brian Garrison
      • Popular Media Track Lead: Crystal Lloyd
      • Science Fiction Track Lead: Olav Rockne
      • 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, Julia Ember
      • Youth Track Lead: Karin Llyr
      • Virtual Content Lead: Jennifer Rhorer
  • PUBLICATIONS: Kevin Black
    • Deputy Division Heads: Mark Hodges, Patsyann Jones
    • Ads: John Granacki, Kees van Toorn
    • Daily ‘Zine: Caitlin Cormier
    • Editor: BE Allat
      • Staff: Carissa Wolf, Emily Teng, Judy Johnson, Kate Waterous, Maxx Raven, Stevie Mathre
    • Graphic Design: Devin Jacobsen
      • Staff: Rob Carlos, Scott Douwes, Shelley George
    • Memorials: Steven Silver
    • Newsletter: Cheryl Dyson
    • Photography: Kelcey Bauer
      • Staff: John Jinneman, Zoe Cai
    • Pocket Program: Bill Child, Lea Rush
    • Press Office: Juan Sanmiguel
    • Progress Report: John Berry
    • Restaurant Guide: Paul Carpenter
    • Social Media: Dawn Gallor
    • Staff: Fifi Ding
      • Blog: BE Allat
        • Writing Lead: Ella Kliger
        • Writers: Fifi Ding, Gideon Marcus, James Davis Nicoll, Janice Marcus, Jason Sachs, Kris Vyas-Myall, Rachel S. Cardasco
        • Video: Brandon O’Brien
    • Souvenir Program Book: Daniel Kaufman
    • Website: Cee Chen, Michael Hanscom
    • Writing Team Staff: Mary Cummins
    • Video Editor: Dawn Shaw
  • TECH: Keith Jewell
    • Deputy Division Head: Shevek
    • Google Suite Admin and Onboarding: Karin May, Robert Quimbey
    • IT Backend Developer: Christopher Ambler
    • IT: Keith Jewell
    • Program AV: Ian Shaw
    • Stages AV: Alex Kiwerski
    • Video Area Head: Joseph Weinstein
  • VIRTUAL: Gail Terman (Division Head)
    • Deputy Division Head:
    • Staff: Alan Bond, Anne Davenport, Raymond Low
    • Head of Gaming: Dennis Duquette
    • Scavenger Hunt: Anna Bradley
  • WSFS: Cassidy
    • Deputy Division Heads: Kathryn Duval, Nicholas Whyte, Rosemary Parks
    • Business Meeting Chair: Jesi Lipp
      • Staff: Alex Acks, Ira Alexandre, Martin Pyne, Warren Buff
    • Hugo Administrator: Nicholas Whyte
      • Deputy Hugo Administrator: Esther MacCallum-Stewart
      • Hugo Finalist Liaison: Alison Scott, John Coxon
      • Hugo Help Coordinator: Rosemary Parks, Terry Neill
        • Staff: Petrea Mitchell
      • Hugo Packet Coordinator: Jed Hartman
      • Hugo Staff: John Coxon, Liz Batty
    • Site Selection Coordinator: Rosemary Parks
      • Deputy Site Selection Coordinator: Alison Scott
    • Software Support: Chris Rose

Org chart current as of Mar 22, 2025 @ 2:43 pm.