SHAFR Leadership

PRESIDENT

Mitch Lerner (The Ohio State University)

VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT

Melani McAlister (The George Washington University)

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Amy Sayward (Middle Tennessee State University)

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS EDITOR

Brian Etheridge

Kennesaw State University

CONFERENCE CONSULTANT

Kaete O'Connell

IT CONSULTANT

George Fujii

COUNCIL

Sarah Miller-Davenport

The University of Sheffield

2024

COUNCIL

Vanessa Walker

Amherst College

2024

TEACHING-CENTERED REPRESENTATIVE

Molly Wood

Wittenberg University

2024

COUNCIL

Megan Black

MIT

2025

COUNCIL

Gretchen Heefner

Northwestern University

2025

COUNCIL

Jessica Gienow-Hecht

Freie Universität Berlin

2025

COUNCIL

Brooke Blower

Boston University

2026

COUNCIL

Christopher McKnight Nichols

The Ohio State University

2026

GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

Kelsey Zavelo

Duke University

2024

GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

Chris Hulshof 

University of Wisconsin-Madison

2025

PAST PRESIDENT SERVING ON COUNCIL

Mary Ann Heiss 

Kent State University

2026

PAST PRESIDENT SERVING ON COUNCIL

Laura Belmonte

Virginia Tech

2025

EDITOR

Anne Foster

Indiana State University

EDITOR

Petra Goedde

Temple University

EDITOR

Andrew Johns

Brigham Young University