April Statement:
Since 2010 I have served Maryland Chess as scholastic director, tournament organizer, and tournament director for nearly 200 scholastic tournaments.
Since 2020 I have served US Chess as Scholastic Council chair and vice chair, Development Committee chair and vice chair, and sponsor of 5 U.S. Open Invitationals: the Irwin (seniors: 50+), Rockefeller (K-5), Ashley (K-3), Morphy (K-1), and Weeramantry (blitz).
US Chess can grow the game through strategic partnerships. When my son and I travel nationally to junior squash tournaments, I connect community squash centers with local chess clubs—resulting in a hybrid squash-chess summer camp for at-risk youth in Houston. As a US Squash Foundation board member, I worked with US Squash to invite US Chess to run at US Squash’s $41M national center in Philadelphia an annual hybrid squash-chess event, as well as a US Chess booth at multiple annual scholastic national championships and at an at-risk-youth national team championship.
US Chess’s Nominating Committee recommended me, and I am asking for your vote.
