Club Welcomes 30 New Members

The National Press Club Board of Governors approved 30 new member applications at its meeting on Aug. 23.

Active
Matthew Algeo - freelance writer; Paul Jenks - CQ - Roll Call, co-editor, staff writer

Active Reinstate
Mary Coffman - Medill News Service/Northwestern University, editor/associate professor

Active Under 30
Kristin Coyner - Congressional Quarterly, staff writer; Lakshmi Eassey - National Student Leadership Conference on Journalism & Mass Comm., program director; Valerie Insinna - Tokyo Chunichi Shimbun, staff reporter; Jacquelyn Kasuya - Mainichi Shimbun, reporter/researcher; Delawit Mesfin - IHLAS News Agency, journalist - IHA in the U.S.; Emily Lawson Poe – Platts, editorial intern; Yanmei Xie – Platts, associate editor/Nuclear Power

Affiliate
Portia E. McCollum - U.S. State Department, retired Foreign Service officer; Michelle Parish - New Zealand Embassy, public affairs; Moira Whelan – USAID, DAA for public affairs

Affiliate Reinstate
Chet Lunner - self-Employed consultant

Affiliate Non-Resident
Susan G. Dunlap, Versailles, Ky. - self-employed, Susan Dunlap Insurance Agency

Affiliate Non-Resident Reinstate
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Philadelphia, Pa. - Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, director

Affiliate Under 35
Jerome Lee - Singapore Embassy, first secretary (Information); Babar Taimoor - International Center for Religion & Diplomacy, program manager/media project manager

Associate
Daniel F. Drummond - Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., director of public relations

Associate Reinstate
Thomas D. Neale – Boeing, director, Communications, Public Policy

Associate Non-Resident
Renee O'Farrell, Mount Savage, Md. - self-employed/DBA O'Farrell Consulting, freelance/consultant

Associate Non-Resident Reinstate
James R. DeSantis, Annapolis, Md. - self-employed consultant

Associate 65+
Norma J. Reck – Retired, self-employed consultant

Associate 65+ Reinstate
Paul S. Allen - self-employed consultant

Associate Under 35
Matt Brady - National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, director, media relations; Anna Miller - George Washington University Medical Center, writer/assistant editor; Katherine Mozzone - Society for Neuroscience, editorial assistant; James Shackelford - Prommis Solutions, director of Marketing & Communications; Teddy Wilson - Synaptic Digital, account manager

Building Tenant
James H. Moore - Synaptic Digital, vice president, sales, Southeast U.S.

-- Myron Belkind, Club Secretary, [email protected]