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.
Matt Ravenmoore
Division Head – Events
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.
Megan Fontaine
Division Head – Staff Services
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.
Cassidy
Division Head – WSFS
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
- CONVENTION SERVICES: Chris Young
- Deputy Division Head: Ruth Lichtwardt
- Dockmaster: Gene Bennett
- Lines: Jim Young
- Staff: Lakshanan Sivananda, Athena Sparrow, Kate Campbell
- Logistics: Daniel Pawtowski, Eric Pawtowski
- Staff: Yvonne Pawtowski
- MIMO: Justin Cowdrey
- Staff: Luke Neu, Mena Nizam
- Operations Director: Mowgli Assor, Robbie Bourget
- Staff: Pat Maher
- Rovers: Kevin Bayer
- Staff: Andrew Montgomery, Jill Mitchell, Jona Chen
- EVENTS: Matt Ravenmoore
- Deputy Division Head: Sheril Bogenrief
- Executive Administrator: Jeremy Ghea
- Hugo Awards Ceremony Director: Patty Wells, Randall Shepherd
- Main Stage Manager: Alison VanSacker
- Nightlife: Duante Barnett
- Tech Liaison: Geoffrey Leventhal
- EXHIBITS: Michelle Morrell
- Deputy Division Head: Alex Demboski
- Executive Administrator: Katrina Marier
- Area Head: Katrina Marier
- Art Show: Alex Demboski
- Art Show Second: Sam Demboski
- Staff: Caroline Westra, Tomi Welch
- Costume Displays and Costume Repair Station:
- Staff: Julie Zetterberg Sardo, Lisa Satterlund (Seaboe)
- Crafting Lounge Coordinator: Veronica Lacquement
- Dealers’ Room: Amy Gembala
- Exhibit Layout Lead: Caryn Meyer
- Exhibit Layout Second: Leslie Benjamin
- Fan Tables: Tonya Clark
- Fan Tables Second: Jerry Johnson
- 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: Melanie Briganti
- Guest Of Honor Displays: Elvi Dalgaard
- 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
- 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, Terry Fong
- MEMBER SERVICES: Alan Bond
- Deputy Division Head: Debora Godfrey
- Accessibility: Anne Killpack, Zamesta
- Accessibility Advisor: Meredith Peruzzi
- Staff: Anne Killpack, Willow Clark
- Childcare: Laura Ellis
- Code of Conduct/Listeners: Melissa Lanning
- Deputy Area Head: Dybbuk Klezmer
- Community Fund: Jade Tunnell, Stefanie Riehle
- Staff: Dawn Shaw
- At-Con Info Desk:
- Staff:
- Pre-Con Info Desk: Terry Neill
- Staff:
- NFP Hosting: Don Glover
- Registration: Kate Wood
- Deputy Area Head: David Guon (At Con), Virginia Knight
- Staff: Ed Beecher, Jazi Akins, Jeffrey Cornish, John Day, Kristina Forsyth, Peter De Weerdt
- Deputy Area Head: David Guon (At Con), Virginia Knight
- Safer Spaces: Paul Schneider, Shavon Walker
- Staff: Ember Cooke
- Visa Help: Tim
- PROGRAM: SunnyJim Morgan
- Deputy Division Head: Lydia Valentine
- Program Staff: Channie Beckman
- Autographs Area Coordinator: Regina Renate
- Film Festival: Shawn Marier
- Fringe: Amanda Myre
- Gaming Coordinator: Amy Gembala
- Guest of Honor Liaison: Elise Stephens, Helen Umberger
- Hands-On Workshop Monitor: Mark Davey
- Panelist Vetting: Stacy Ashton
- Staff: Erin Sehnandoah Baker, Jennifer Mace, Robb Beggs
- Panelist Surrogate: Stacey Ashton
- Software Development: Martin Tithonium
- Program Ops: Scot Oliver
- Staff: Bernie Strub, Carolina Gomez Lagerlof, Judy Kullman, Meghan Lancaster, Michael Nelson, Rodger Burns
- Program Team: Jaitee Pitts
- Single Pattern Costume Co-Coordinators: Debbie Bretschneider, Kevin Roche
- 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
- Non-Western Lit Track Lead: Leonardo Espinoza Benavides
- 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
- 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
- Graphic Design: Devin Jacobsen
- Staff: Rob Carlos, Scott Douwes, Shelley George
- Memorials: Steven Silver
- Newsletter: Cheryl Dyson
- Photography: Kelcey Bauer
- Staff: Zoe Cai
- Pocket Program: Bill Child, Lea Rush
- Press Office: Juan Sanmiguel
- Progress Report: John Berry
- Restaurant Guide: Paul Carpenter
- Social Media: David Hogg
- Staff: Dawn Gallor, Fifi Ding
- Blog: BE Allat, Dave Hogg
- Writing Lead: Ella Kliger
- Writers: Fifi Ding, Gideon Marcus, James Davis Nicoll, Janice Marcus, Jason Sachs, Rachel S. Cardasco
- Video: Brandon O’Brien
- Blog: BE Allat, Dave Hogg
- Souvenir Program Book: dQniel Kaufman
- Website: Cee Chen, Michael Hanscom
- Video Editor: Dawn Shaw
- STAFF SERVICES: Megan Fontaine (Retired)
- Volunteers: Christine Ragan, Emergency Holographic Area Head: Helen Montgomery
- Deputy Area Head: Christine Humphrey
- Onboarding: Karin May
- Volunteers: Christine Ragan, Emergency Holographic Area Head: Helen Montgomery
- TECH: Keith Jewell
- IT Backend Developer: Christopher Ambler
- IT: Keith Jewell
- Program AV: Ian Shaw
- Stages AV: Alex Kiwerski
- VIRTUAL: Alan Bond (Active Division Head)
- Deputy Division Head: Gail Terman
- WSFS: Cassidy
- Deputy Division Heads: Kathryn Duval, Nicholas Whyte, Rosemary Parks
- Business Meeting Chair: Jesi Lipp
- Staff: Martin Pyne
- Hugo Administrator: Nicholas Whyte
- Deputy Hugo Administrator: Esther MacCallum-Stewart
- 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
- Software Support: Chris Rose
Org chart current as of .
