2015 GPOW Board Election Results

Thank you to everyone who participated in the election of new board members! We have now closed the election on Survey Monkey and below are the results. We want to welcome the new members to the board.

Vice Chair (one year position, Chair next year)

INGRID NELSON, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Vermont.

Session Coordinators (two year position)

The two candidates have decided to share the position and collectively organize AAG sessions for the next two years.

AMY PIEDALUE, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, University of Washington.

AMY SCHUBERT, Ph.D. candidate, Geography Department, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Awards Committee (two year position, to join Nazgol Bagheri).

BETH BEE, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment, East Carolina University.

Student Representatives (two year position)

YUI HASHIMOTO, PhD candidate at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

MILENA JANIEC, PhD Candidate, Geography and Environmental Science, University of South Florida

International Liaison (two year position)

TANJA BASTIA, PhD. Senior Lecturer, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester

A very special thanks to the below outgoing committee members, who put in a lot of time and effort to contribute to the success of the GPOW!

Tamar Rothenberg, Past Chair

Jill Williams, Session Coordinator

Roberta Hawkins, Awards Committee

Ann Marie Murnaghan, International Liaison

Marina Islas, Arielle Hesse, and Remi Alapo, Student Representatives