New Board Members Elected

New members of the Board of Directors for the National Workforce Registry Alliance have been elected. New members begin their term on October 31, 2019, and will begin their orientation to the board in September.

There are two new Regional Representatives on the board. They are Jay Joshi in Region 2 and Christi Moore in Region 4!

Jay is with Public Consulting Group which operates the New Jersey registry and Christi is with Bright Start From the Beginning at the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning.

The new President-Elect is Diana Diaz of the Aspire Registry in New York. Diana was previously Region 2 representative and is the registry administrator of the New York Early Childhood Development Institute.

Our current Treasurer Jennifer O’Brien, director of Early Childhood Workforce Development at the Colorado Department of Education will return for a second term in office.

Also, returning for second terms as regional representatives are Region 6, Paige Cox with the Arkansas Department of Human Services; Region 8, Ellie Gardner with Align the operator of the Wyoming STARS registry; and Region 10, Pamela Deardorff with the Oregon Center for Career Development in Childhood Care and Education.

New and retiring board members will merge at the annual board meeting in Minneapolis on September 17 just before the annual conference.