Ballot Set for the 2025 SAA Election

November 12, 2024The following candidates are slated for SAA's 2025 election. Information about each candidate will be posted to the SAA website in January.

Vice President/President-Elect 

  • Melissa Gonzales
    Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
  • Brenda Gunn
    Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

Council

  • Rosemary K. J. Davis
    Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
  • Angel Diaz 
    University of California, Santa Barbara Library
  • Jennifer Gunter King
    Boston University
  • Teresa Mora
    University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Brittany Newberry
    Georgia State University
  • Rachel Searcy
    New York University  

Nominating Committee 

  • Steve Duckworth
    Oregon Health & Science University
  • Kelley Klor
    Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums
  • Vince Lee
    University of Houston Libraries
  • Monika Lehman
    Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
  • Andrea McMillan
    Michigan State University Libraries
  • Jordan Meyerl
    Historic New England 

Eligibility and Voting Guidelines

  • All full individual members, student members, and primary contacts of institutional members who are in good standing on March 15, 2025, will be eligible to vote in the 2025 Election. Members who join after March 15, 2025, will be eligible to vote in the 2026 Election. Individual associate members are not eligible to vote.
  • SAA staff will export and upload voter data to the online ballot system during the last week of March. Voters will be able to access their online ballot between April 1 and April 15, 2025, via a unique username and password included in the email notification. SAA is partnering with Survey & Ballot Systems, a leading provider of secure online voting software for nonprofit associations, to administer this election.
  • Any eligible member of SAA may also be placed on the ballot by submitting a petition signed signed by five (5) percent of eligible voting members of the societys; petitions must be submitted to the Chief Executive Officer at SAACEO@archivists.org by January 31, 2025. 

If you have any questions, please contact SAA Governance Team at saagovernance@archivists.org.