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Committees

NAMA Officers

  • Trent Blizzard, President
  • Dave Layton, First Vice President
  • Laura Juszczak, Second Vice President
  • Susan Kayser, Secretary
  • Bruch Reed, Chief Operating Officer
  • Melodie Gates, Treasurer/Finance Chair
  • Barbara Ching, Past President
  • Luke Smithson, Membership Manager

Executive Committee

  • Trent Blizzard
  • Barbara Ching
  • Bruch Reed
  • Dave Layton
  • Laura Juszczak
  • Susan Kayser
  • Melodie Gates
  • Luke Smithson
  • Alisha Millican (At-large Trustee)
  • Cheshire Mayrsohn (At-large Trustee)
  • Elinoar Shavit (At-large Trustee)

Institutional Trustees

Awards

  • Phillip Carpenter, Chair
  • Members: Past recipients of Award for Contributions to Amateur Mycology and past recipients of the Elsie and Harry Knighton Service Award.
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Club Relations

  • Luke Smithson, Chair
  • Debra Shankland
  • Joe Brandt
  • Julie Case
  • Krista Wilmorth
  • Peggy Green
  • Phillip Carpenter
  • Sandra Patton
  • Gregory Wolfe
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Conservation and Stewardship

  • Aaron Tupac, Chair
  • Greg Wolfe (Secretary) 
  • Elinoar Shavit
  • Amy Honan
  • Deana Thomas
  • Logan Wiedenfeld
  • Kerri McCabe 
  • Gyorgy Voros
  • Taye Bright 
  • Glen Rogers 
  • Kyle Rooke
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Culinary Arts

  • Julie Schreiber, Chair
  • Jess Starwood
  • Eugenia Bone
  • Zachary Hunter
  • Spike Mikulski
  • Robert Courteau
  • Gordon Walker
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Cultivation

  • Tavis Lynch, Chair
  • Milton Tam
  • Amber North
  • Matt Wanasek
  • Nicholas Sciolino
  • Charlie Aller
  • Julian DiCaprio
  • Mike Snyder
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

DNA Sequencing Committee (DNAMA)

  • Joshua Birkebak, Chair
  • Brian Looney
  • Sigrid Jakob
  • Alison Harrington
  • Scott Ostuni
  • Mandie Quark
  • Joseph O’Hallaron
  • Martin Osis
  • Krista Willmorth
  • David McCheyne
  • Alan Rockefeller
  • Jeff Stallman
  • Alden Dirks
  • Harte Singer
  • Steve Ness
  • Kyle Canan
  • Stephen Russell
  • Andrew Wilson
  • Sharon Squazzo
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Education

  • Sister Marie Kopin, CPPS, Ph.D., Co-Chair
  • Eva Gordon, Co-Chair
  • Jen Hall
  • Melany Kahn
  • Diana Richards
  • Gyorgyi Voros
  • David Lohndorf
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Ethnomycology

  • Elinoar Shavit, Chair
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Finance

  • Brad Knowles, Chair
  • Melodie Gates
  • Ex officio member: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Foray

  • Ken Buegeleisen, Chair
  • Connie Durnan
  • Rose Turi
  • Andrew Wilson
  • Julie Schreiber
  • Kathy Yerich
  • Melodie Gates
  • Kristen Blizzard
  • Peggy Green
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Marketing

  • Kathy Yerich, Chair
  • Kristen Blizzard
  • Adam Cohen
  • Melodie Gates
  • Melissa Perry-Klotka
  • Julie Case
  • Rose Tursi
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Medicinal Mushrooms

  • John Michelotti, Chair
  • Denis Benjamin
  • Cornelia Cho
  • Hayden Johnson
  • Anna Sitkoff
  • Avery Stempel
  • David Walde
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer
  • Honorary members: Robert Rogers

Nominating Committee

  • Dave Layton, Chair
  • Alisha Millican
  • Joe Brandt
  • Maxine Stone
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Toxicology Committee

  • Heather Hallen-Adams, Chair
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

See toxicology identifiers: https://namyco.org/interests/toxicology/volunteer-identification-consultants/

Visual Arts

Includes former Dyeing and Papermaking, and Photography committees

  • Rose Tursi, Chair
  • Marion Richards
  • Theresa Kenney
  • Mariah Rogers
  • Tiffany Theden
  • Karen Milnes
  • Liz Weinstein
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Voucher Collection Project

  • Andrew Wilson, Chair, Denver Botanic Garden liaison
  • Patrick Leacock, Voucher Coordinator 
  • Wyatt Gaswick, Field Museum Liaison
  • Adele Mehta, Foray Recorder
  • Cathy Cripps
  • David Lewis
  • Gregory Mueller
  • Bruch Reed
  • Liv Filialuna
  • Else Vellinga
  • Alisha Millican
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

Website

  • Kristen Blizzard, Chair
  • Derek Zeller
  • Elliot Marr
  • Stetson Jenkins
  • Peggy Green
  • Liv Filialuna
  • Ginger McKey
  • Steve Bergey
  • Ex officio members: NAMA President and NAMA Chief Operating Officer

The President and Chief Operating Officer are ex-officio members of all committees except Nominating and Awards.

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