IAPE Members to Vote for Next Union President

Members of IAPE Local 1096 will decide between Jodi Green, Content Ops Specialist in Princeton, and Stephen Nakrosis, Rewrite Editor in New York, to serve as their next union president. This is the only contested seat of the 2020 Election of Officers and Directors. 

Check back later at our elections page where the committee will post personal statements from the candidates as they are submitted. We will post information about upcoming IAPE presidential debates to our events page.

Eleanor Miller, Newsletter and Curation Editor in New York, was elected Vice President and Brent Kendall, a Reporter in Washington, was named as the union’s Secretary for the next three-year terms starting Dec. 1. Both ran unopposed and were elected by acclaim. Austen Hufford, a Reporter in Chicago, will serve as the union’s next Treasurer, after another nominee, Allan Ryan, Analyst GFO Collections in Princeton, withdrew his nomination for the position. 

Location director nominees for Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Northwest and Southwest were elected by acclaim, as were the classification director nominees for News and Production.

There were no location director nominees for Midwest or Canada, or for directors to represent the Administrative/Advertising and the Technology classifications. According to IAPE’s bylaws, those seats will be filled by the next board.   

The candidates for IAPE’s two CWA Delegate at Large positions were also elected by acclaim after current IAPE president Yogita Patel withdrew her nomination for this non-board role. 

The election will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association via paper ballot sent through the mail to members’ home addresses starting Monday Oct. 5. Ballots will be due back to AAA’s headquarters in New York by 5 p.m. on Thursday Nov. 5. 

If you have recently moved or expect to move between now and October, please fill out this Google form with your mailing address.  (Members will receive one ballot to vote for president and to cast their “yes/no” vote for the Dues Referendum).

The revised list of candidates and official election notice can be found under the Elections tab on the IAPE website.

If you have any questions about the election for IAPE president, please reach out to the Elections Committee (elections@iape1096.org).

In solidarity,
The IAPE Elections Committee
Kimberly Chin (Chair), Jonathan Randles & Haley Velasco