UPDATE: 2025 SAA Election Ballot

A recent change has been made to the 2025 SAA election ballot. Due to unforeseen circumstances, candidate for Vice President/President-elect Melissa Gonzales has chosen to step out of the election. The Nominating Committee has now added Conor Casey to the election ballot. See the new, complete slate for the 2025 election below. All information about each candidate will be posted to the SAA website early March. 

Vice President/President-Elect  

• Conor Casey 
  Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries 

• 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 Hummingbird (Klor)
  Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums 

• Vince Lee
  University of Houston Libraries 

• Monika Lehman
  Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University 

• Jordan Meyerl
  Historic New England
  

• Melissa Stoner
  University of California, Berkeley

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. 

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