The Board of Directors of the Education Writers Association is pleased to announce the election of new officers of the board. Effective December 1, 2021, the following board officers began two-year terms:
Board officers for 2021–22
President: Steve Drummond
Executive Producer, NPR News
Vice President, Journalists: Eva-Marie Ayala
Education Lab Editor, The Dallas Morning News
Vice President, Community Members: Debbie Veney
Senior Vice President, Communications and Marketing, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Secretary: Erica Green
Education Correspondent, The New York Times
Treasurer: Felice Nudelman
Associate Vice President, Academic Innovation and Transformation, The American Association of State Colleges and Universities
Greg Toppo, a longtime national education journalist and author, assumes the officer role of immediate past president after having served as president since 2017.
Directors for 2021–22
Sarah Carr
Independent Journalist and Author
David Hoff
Chief Executive Officer, DavidJHoff
Barbara McKenna
Director of Strategic Communications, Learning Policy Institute
Denise-Marie Ordway
Managing Editor, Journalist’s Resource at the Harvard Kennedy School
Joy Resmovits
Senior Editor/Local Impact, The Trace
Beth Shuster
Director of Public Communications, Office of the Provost, University of Southern California
Scott Widmeyer
Founding Managing Partner, Finn Partners and Founder, Widmeyer Communications
