Staff and Boards
Meet EWA’s staff, board of directors and advisory boards.
CAB Member
Patrick Riccards is the founder and chief executive officer of the Driving Force Institute for Public Engagement....
CAB Member
Lauren Roth is the Assistant Director, Public Relations for Orange County Public Schools, the eighth-largest school district in the nation....
JAB Member
Leah Clapman is the Executive Director of PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL), the public media journalism training program in high schools across the cou...
JAB Member
Jason Gonzales is the Higher Education and Legislative Matters Reporter for Chalkbeat Colorado....
JAB Member
Larry Gordon, who lives in Los Angeles, has been a higher education writer and editor at EdSource and at the Los Angeles Times....
JAB Member
Emily Hanford is host of the hit podcast Sold a Story, the second-most-shared show on Apple Podcasts in 2023 and one of Time Magazine’s top three podcasts of...
JAB Member
Sara Hebel is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Open Campus, a nonprofit news organization that partners with local newsrooms to improve coverage of coll...
JAB Member
Benjamin Herold is a journalist and author who explores America’s beautiful and busted public education system....
