05/21/2025

CWPA Elections are Open!

Dear Colleagues,

I’m delighted to let you know that CWPA Elections for 2025 are officially OPEN! This year we will be electing a Vice President and affirming a WPA-GO representative.

• David Green is our candidate for VP. If elected, Dr. Green will serve from 2025-2026 at Vice President, 2026-2027 as President, and 2027-2028 as Past President.
• Taylor Dickson is the incoming Chair of WPA-GO whom we can affirm as the WPA-GO representative. Taylor will serve as the GO voting member of the Executive Board from 2025-2026.

Please vote by clicking on the link below. You will be prompted to log into the website, where you’ll see information about each candidate and a button to click to submit your vote.

• Link to vote: https://wpacouncil.org/aws/CWPA/pt/sp/election

Many thanks to the CWPA Nominating Committee, who solicited nominees for the vacant VP position and determined the final slate of candidates:

• Ryan Shepherd (Chair), Northern Illinois University
• Kristi Murray Costello, Old Dominion University
• Jolivette Mecenas, California Lutheran University
• Michael Pak, University of Hawaii - West Oahu
• Missy Phegley, Southeast Missouri State University
• Robin Snead, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Elections will remain open until June 4, 2025. Thank you for participating in this important process of ushering in the next group of leaders for CWPA!

Best,
Kelly 

Kelly Blewett, CWPA President, councilofwpa@gmail.com