UPDATE: 2026 SAA Election Ballot

March 31, 2026—A recent change has been made to the 2026 SAA election ballot. Due to unforeseen circumstances, candidate for Vice President/President-elect Lydia Tang has chosen to step out of the election. The Nominating Committee has added Alison Clemens to the election ballot. See the new, complete slate for the 2026 election below:

Vice President/President-Elect

• Melissa Gonzales
  Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
• Alison Clemens
  Beinecke Library

Council

• Alexis Antracoli
  Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
• Sarah Buchanan
  University of Missouri
• Chris Burns
  McGill University 
• Joshua Kitchens
  Georgia Public Library Service
• Jessica Tai
  Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
• Gregory Wiedeman
  University of Albany, SUNY

Nominating Committee

• Kaitlyn Bailey
  Louisiana State University
• Sage Innerarity
  Peabody Essex Museum
• Adam Kriesberg
  Simmons University School of Library and Information Science
• Ugoma A. Smoke
  College of Information, University of Maryland
• Maisie Jones
  University of Maryland College of Information Studies
• Christina Zamon
  Georgia State University

Eligibility and Voting Guidelines

• All full individual members, student members, and primary contacts of institutional members who are in good standing on March 15, 2026 will be eligible to vote in the 2026 Election. Members who joined after March 15, 2026 will be eligible to vote in the 2027 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 15 and April 30, 2026, 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.

Questions? Please contact SAA Governance staff at saagovernance@archivists.org.