Conference Daily Online

AASA's award-winning newsletter, providing daily coverage of events, photos and video clips of the conference.

2025 Staff Roster

Editor in Chief

Managing Editor

Digital Editor

  • Stephanie Compton, consultant, Penrose, N.C.

Videography Coordinator

  • Michael Ellson, director of media arts, Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, Tenn.

Senior Editors

  • Liz Griffin (off-site), managing editor, School Administrator magazine, AASA
  • Sarah Hall, freelance journalist, Raleigh, N.C.
  • Emily Topping, freelance journalist, New Orleans, La.

Reporters

  • Amiela Arcellana, e-newsletter editor, AASA
  • Ruthie Feinstein, sophomore, Benjamin Franklin HS, New Orleans
  • Sia Moon, junior, Benjamin Franklin HS, New Orleans
  • Ecoi Lewis, graduate student, Loyola University of New Orleans
  • Charli Slaughter, sophomore, Mount Carmel Academy, New Orleans
  • Mohammad Tantawi, senior, Louisiana State University

Videographers

  • Claudia Cook, sophomore, Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, Tenn.
  • Jack Frazer, sophomore, Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, Tenn.
  • Lyla Kelley, senior, Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, Tenn.
  • Emercyn Randolph, senior, Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, Tenn.
  • Bennett Songer, sophomore, Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, Tenn.

Photographers

  • Matthew Hinton, freelance photographer, New Orleans
  • Sandy Huffaker, freelance photographer, New Orleans

Bloggers

  • Rui Dionisio, superintendent, Fair Lawn School District, Fair Lawn, N.J.
  • Lance Gibbon, superintendent, Hood Canal School District, Skokomish, Wash.
  • Neil Gupta, superintendent, Oakwood City Schools District, Oakwood, Ohio
  • Jane Stavem, superintendent, Sioux Falls School District, Sioux Falls, S.D.

Podcasters

  • Joseph Jones, superintendent, New Castle County Voc-Tech School District, Wilmington, Del.
  • T.J. Vari, senior director of product strategy, Maia Learning

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