Secretary Kelly Gade has advised the newspaper at Shorewood High School in Shoreline for more than 20 years in addition to several years advising yearbook and literary magazine. She is a CTE certified teacher in journalism. She...

Vice President Anna Ferdinand has taught English and journalism at Sedro-Woolley High School in Northwest Washington for nine years. Anna studied at New York University, and went on to work in Port-au-Prince, Haiti from 1995-2004,...

President Chris Twombley has been teaching English at Mercer Island for 24 years and has served as The Islander’s adviser for the last 12. In 2019 Twombley received the Fern Valentine Freedom of Expression award and was name...

Kathy Schrier, MJE, is executive director of the Washington Journalism Education Association (WJEA). In 1997, she returned to the classroom to teach journalism and advise student media, after running a small Seattle graphics and...