A'23 Org Chart

• Looking for last year's org chart? It's at A'22 Org Chart
• Other historical org charts can be found on the Org Charts list page.

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This is a work in progress and the structure is subject to change.

Con Chair

Acting Con Chairs: Melissa Kaplan

• Con Chair in memoriam: Jodie Lawhorn
• Meeting Scribe: Julia Austein
• Con Chair Advisors: Kat Tanaka Okopnik

Con Chair Direct Reports

Convention Treasurer

Convention Treasurer: [1]

Assistant Convention Treasurer:

• Treasury Staff:
  • Pre and Post con treasury - Etana and Nicholas "Phi"Schectman
  • Cash Office Manager: Kelly Fabijanic

Diversity Committee

Diversity Chairs: [2]

• Diversity Committee:

Convention Website

Team Lead: [3]

• Online Schedule: Mike Tatroe, Alex Morgan
• Web IT: Benjamin Levy

Vaccine Verification

Team Lead: Priscilla Ballou
Team Members: Lenore Jones, Rebecca Brumberger, Wendee Abramo
At-com verifier: Mike Rasnick, Vivian Abraham

Access

Division Head: Marc Brunco
Assistant Division Head:

• Access Staff: Julia Rampone
• Tactile Tour: Marc Brunco and Julia Rampone

Communications

Division Head: Etana
Assistant Division Head: Priscilla Ballou
Direct Reports:

• Progress Reports: [4]
• Newsletter Area Head: [5]
  • Assistant Area Head:
• Press Liaison: Mark "Justin" Waks
  • Deputy Press Liaison:

• Sign Shop Area Head: Cate Schneiderman
  • Sign Shop Staff:
  • Sign Printing:
  • Sign Kiosk Setup:
  • Wayfinding Signage Master: Cate Schneiderman

Events

Division Head: James Boggie

• Assistant Division Head:

Events Staff:

• Main Stage Events Area Head: David Silber
• Martial Arts Area Head: Mark Millman
  • Weapons Demonstrations Liaison:
    • Assistant Weapons Demonstrations Liaison:
• Music and Dance Area Head: [6]
  • Wandering Minstrels: [7]
    • Assistant Minstrel Wrangler:
    • At-Con Minstrel Wrangler:
  • Dance Talent Wrangler: [8]
• Yoga Area Head:
  • Yoga Class Manager:
• Events Liaison Lead:
  • Events Liaisons: Zac Hewitt
    • Gaming Liaison:
• Planorama Coordinator:

Masquerade

Masquerade Director: James Hinsey

Acting Masquerade Director: Suli

Assistant Masquerade Director:

• Staff:
• Masquerade Table: Suli Isaacs
• MC: Andy Hicks
  • MC Assist/Liaison:
• Stage Manager:
• Judges:
  • Presentation Judges: William Kennedy, Mink the Satyr Cosplay, Carol Salemi
  • Presentation Judges Clerk: Suli
  • Workmanship Judges: Lillian Fehler, telekineticManiac
  • Workmanship Judges' Clerks:
• Green Room Manager:
  • Green Room Staff:
  • Den Moms: at-con Signup
  • Repair Table Manager: Arisia Cosplay Repair
• Project Cosplay: Fast Track - Jan Dumas, Kate Brick
• Head Ninja:
  • Backstage Pirate: Greykell
• Official Photographer: Derek Kouyoumjian
  • Assistant Photographers:
• Masquerade Photographer:
• Videographer:
• Hall Costume Awards: Northern Lights Costumers' Guild
• Masquerade House Manager:
  • Ushers:
• Masquerade Halftime Entertainment:
• Masquerade Computer Guru: James Hinsey
• CART Services:

Exhibits

Division Head: Benjamin Levy

Assistant Division Head:

Art Show

• Art Show Director: Julia Austein
  • Assistant Art Show Director: Nick Brown

• Setup and Move-Out
  • Checkin/Checkout:
  • Checkin/Checkout Chief:
  • Build Chief:
  • Set-Up/Tear-Down: William Mui, Lori Del Genis
  • Layout:
  • Lighting Chiefs:
  • Art Show Mail-in Clerks:
  • Mail-In Setup Chief: Eyal Sagi
  • Mail-In Setup: D Cameron Calkins, Harvey Rubinovitz
  • Signage:

• Runtime
  • Automation:
  • Awards:
  • Bag Check:
  • Door Dragon: Richard Schmeidler, Reggie Themistocle, Samantha Immele
  • Head Cashier: Andrea Senchy
  • Cashier: Skip Morris, JB Segal
  • Paperwork:
  • Student Art Contest Liaison:
  • Tally Clerk: Reggie Themistocle, Samantha Immele
  • Tour Director: Zach Melisi
  • Tactile Tour:
  • Training:
  • Volunteer Coordinator:
  • General Art Show Staff & Runtime Crew: Sandy 'Pink' Sutherland

Creators' Corner

Creators' Corner Liaison: Ann Muir Thomas (Formerly Artist/Author Alley)

Dealers

• Dealers' Liaison: Ed Trachtenberg
• At-Con Dealers Liaison: Heather Spencer
  • Assistant Dealer Liaison:
  • Dealers' Room Coordinator:
  • Schleppers (Dealers Move-in/out Assistance):
  • Tax ID Tsar: Mieke Citroen

Fan Tables

• Fan Tables: [9]
  • Graphic Design:

Galleria Management

• Galleria Manager:
  • Galleria Layout: Benjamin Levy

Food

Division Head: Brett Sherman

Assistant Division Head:

• Con Suite Co-Area Heads: [10]
  • Con Suite Leads:
  • Con Suite Staff:
• Dead Dog: [11]
  • Dead Dog Assistant:
  • Dead Dog Staff:
• Green Room/Staff Den Co-Area Heads: [12]
  • Green Room/Staff Den Lead:
  • Green Room/Staff Den Assistant: [13]
  • Green Room/Staff Den:
• Quartermaster: [14]
  • Assistant Quartermaster:
  • Quartermaster Staff:
  • Food Accountants:
• Technical Expertise:
• Staff: Danielle Gauthier

Gaming

• Gaming Team: Michael Renaud, Patricia Adams, Daniel R. Abraham, l33t, Anne Ratchat
• Division Head: Daniel R. Abraham
  
• Assistant Division Head: [15]
  
  • Tabletop Gaming Area Head: Daniel R. Abraham
    
  • LARPs Area Head: Anne Ratchat
  • Video Games Area Head: Leet or [16]
  • Tabletop Game Room Keepers: Eva E. Alpert, Nick Bessette, and volunteers
  • Tabletop Game Room Hosts: these are volunteer roles

GOH Liaison

Guest of Honor Division Head: Melissa Kaplan

• Liasion to Writer Guest of Honor: Opeyemi Parham
• Liaison to Fan Guests of Honor: Lauren Roy
• Liasion to Artist Guest of Honor: Samantha Immele
• At-Con Staff: Lauren Roy, Nick Brown, Samantha Immele, Opeyemi Parham, Melia Vaden

Hotel Liaison

Division Head: Nicholas Shectman Assistant Division Head, Con Spaces: Wendy Verschoor

• At-Con Liaisons: J
• BEO Lead: [17]

Assistant Division Head, Guest Spaces: TBD, email if interested

• Innkeeper Area Head: Ellie Younger
  • Pre-con Assistant Innkeeper:
  • Pre-con Innkeepers:
  • At-con Innkeeper Staff Manager: [18]
  • At-Con Innkeepers: Ellie Pagan-Vargas
• Party Czar: [19]
  • Party Czar Staff:
• Space Pilot Program Area Head: Allison Feldhusen

Member Services

Division Head: [20]

Assistant Division Head:
Manager of Member Services Areas: Cate Schneiderman

• Arisians of Color Safe Space Opeyemi Parham
  • AoC Room Hosts: Marley Bessette, Michelle Li
• Otherwise/Con or Bust Bake Sale: [21]
• Blood Mobile Liaison (Blood Drive): John Hodges
• Coat Check: Linda Brennan
  • Coat Check Staff: Ruth Fishman, Greykell Dutton, Carma Shortess
• Cosplay Repair Station:Missy Schuman
  • Cosplay Repair Station Staff: Jess Steytler, Jim L, Melissa (Ninja Blue Cosplay)
• Freebies: "Filthy Pierre"
• Food Trucks: Jude Shabry
• Info Desk: Kristin Page
  • Info Desk Staff: Matan Kruskal, Diane Rosenburg, Jean Rossner
• Line Management: Claudia Mastroianni
  • Line Staff:
• Quiet Room: Cate Schneiderman
  • Quiet Room Attendants: Bill Thomasson, Hayden Bauer
• Pronoun Ribbons: [22]

Operations Team

• Division Head: ops@arisia.org

• • Ops Desk Assistant Area Head: Ops Desk
  • Ops Desk Chief of Staff:
  • Ops Desk Staff:
  • Radio Wrangler:

• Application IT Team Lead:

• At-con IT Lead: Mike Tatroe
  • Staff: Rick Kovalcik, Elliott Mitchell

Convention Master Support [23]

• Convention Master Sysadmin:
• Staff:

Programming

Co-Division Heads: Ilene Tatroe & Dan Toland

• Programming Staff (Pre-Con): Wendee Abramo

• Area Heads:
  • Art & Maker: Scott Lefton, Kevin Osborn
  • Comics: E.J. Barnes, Danny Miller
  • Communities: Tikva
  • Cosplay & Costuming: Raven Stern
    • Advisor: Milo Martinez
  • Fan Interest: Melissa Honig
  • Gaming: Mark "Justin" Waks
  • Literature: Mar Hammitt-McDonald
  • Media: Sid Hackney, Reuben Baron
  • Meetups: Programming Staff [24]
  • Music: Jeremy Kessler
    • Assistant: Benjamin Newman
  • Relax-a-Track: Tanya Washburn
  • Science: Charity Southworth
    • Advisor: Mark Amidon
  • Workshops: Megan Lewis
  • Writing: Morgan Crooks
• Program Nexus Manager: [25]
  • Nexus Staff: Ann Thomas, Jenne Foronjy, Jennifer Tretheway, Naomi Sipple, Nate LaRose, Wendee Abramo
• Planorama:
  • Area Head: Gail Terman
  • Data Knurd: Dennis Duquette
  • Staff: Dan Franklin, Mike Tatroe, Debbie Terman

Publications

Division Head: Alex Morgan

• Souvenir Book: Catherine Wechsler
  • Copy Editors: [26]
• Pocket Program: Alex Morgan
  • Quick Reference: Benjamin Levy

Registration

Division Head: Melia Vaden

Assistant Division Head: Brooks Harrelson

• Registration Managers: Kelly F., Lenore (pre-con),
• At-Con Tech Lead: K. Vaden
• Comps Boss: See Division Head
• Pre-Con Staff: Melia, Brooks, K. Vaden., Etana, Jasra, Lenore
• At-Con Staff: Melia, Brooks, K. Vaden, Kelly F., Peter B., Vivian A., Lenore, Etana, Wendy V., Priscilla, Rob C., Henry L., Jasra

Safety

Division Head: Adam Burdick

• Assistant Division Head: Tim Yee
• Inter-Division Liaison Officer: Daniel Eareckson

The Safety Team

• Safety Team Area Heads: Paige Murray
  • Safety Team Staff: Ben, Garret, Eric, Aedyn, Kaylee, Shayna, Andrew

Incident Response Team

• Incident Response Team irt-staff@arisia.org
  • Division Head: Tikva
  • Managers: Susan Weiner, Nchanter
  • ConChair Liason:
  • IRT Team Members: Todd Whittemore, Vivian Abraham, Susan Weiner, Diana Hsu, Jean Rossner, Nightwing Whitehead, Etana, Nchanter, WyldeKyttin, Jaime Garmendia

• The Safety Team

Team Arisia Services

Division Head: Erik Meyer-Curley & Sharon Sbarsky

• Volunteers Area Head: Erik Meyer-Curley
• BARCC Coordinator:
• Duck Hunt Coordinator: duckhunt@arisia.org
• Ribbons: Sharon Sbarsky
• Team Arisia Headquarters Staff: Stirling Scott Newberry, Gay Ellen Dennett

Logistics

• Logistics Area Head: Kylie Selkirk
• Logistics Assistant Area Head: Rex Powell
• Dock Master:
• (Un)Loading Crew: Patrick Flaherty, Cheryl Cheney, Sandy Sutherland, Mieke Citroen, Sean Philips, Jeremy Thorpe, Vivian Abraham, Steven Lee, Santiago Rivas, Joshua Burson, Zac Hewitt, Charles Olson, Ariela Zonderman, Heather Young
• Logistics Drivers: Rick Kovalcik, Mark Hertel, Jonathon Weiss, Hobbit

Technical Services

Division Head/Technical Director: Brendon Chetwynd
Assistant Division Head/Assistant Technical Director: Hayden Bauer
Technical Advisor: David Silber

• Program AV: [27]
  • Program AV Staff:

Design:

• Sound Designer: [28]
• Lighting Designer: Brendon Chetwynd & Lowell Gilbert

Build:

• Tech Rental Inventory:
• Master Electrician: Lowell Gilbert
• Power Crew Chief:
• Drape Crew Chief: Covert Beach
• Scaffolding Crew Chief: Covert Beach
• Audio Crew Chief (Main Stage):
• Audio/Visual Crew Chief:
• Intercom Crew Chief:
• Projection Crew Chief:

Runtime:

• Video Recording:
• Dance Hall TD: [29]
• Dance Hall Sound:

• Per-event leads:
  • Masquerade Lighting Designer: Kylie Selkirk

• Tech Suite Manager: Covert Beach
• Tech Party Lead: Covert Beach

• General Tech Staff: Beth Kevles, Chiara Guglielmo, Pink, Violet Zitola, Covert Beach, Bernie Gabin, Hobbit, Brett,

Youth Services

Division Head: Jan Dumas & Rebecca Brumberger

Assistant Division Head: [30]

• Fast Track (Children's Programming): Jan Dumas & Rebecca Brumberger
  • FT Front Desk:
  • FT Quartermaster: Delenn Brumberger
  • Project Cosplay: Kate Brick, Lucy Backman, Mabel Backman, Charles (Spot) Backman
• Teen Lounge: Vic Macchi
  • Teen Lounge Staff:
• Teen Unconference: [31]