Board of Directors

Officers

President

  • Angela Greiling Keane is news director for Bloomberg Government, where she leads a team that covers congressional policy and politics. She joined Bloomberg Government in 2022 after nearly six years at POLITICO. She was most recently POLITICO’s managing editor for states, running policy and politics coverage for regional-based teams and federal policy verticals. She has been a JAWS member since 2003.

    Greiling Keane was the 2013 National Press Club president, where she focused on domestic press freedom and government transparency and elevating women in the news business. She served two years as president of the non-profit National Press Club Journalism Institute and is an alumna of the Journalism and Women Symposium board.

    Greiling Keane spent nearly a decade at Bloomberg News, as a White House correspondent during the Obama administration and reporter covering auto and railroad policy and freight transportation companies. Prior to that, she was an associate editor at Traffic World magazine and a Washington correspondent for the Small Newspaper Group. She grew up in the Twin Cities and graduated from the University of Missouri. She lives in Washington with her husband and daughter.

Vice President

  • Sonya Ross is managing editor of Inside Climate News, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newsroom devoted to climate change, and founder of Black Women Unmuted, a media start-up that reports under-told stories about Black women in the U.S.

    Sonya took on these twin endeavors after a 33-year career at The Associated Press. She became The AP’s first Black woman White House reporter in 1995 and, in 1999, the first Black woman elected to the board of the White House Correspondents Association. During the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Sonya was the print pool reporter aboard Air Force One with President George W. Bush as he was evacuated to safety, also an historic first in media. Beyond reporting roles, Sonya was an editor for AP on international affairs, national security, and domestic regional coverage. In 2010, she established specialty race and ethnicity coverage for AP that transformed the approach to gathering news for and about people of color.

    In 2018, Sonya was inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame. She was the founding chair of the political reporting task force for the National Association of Black Journalists and is currently vice president of the board of the Journalism and Women’s Symposium, and secretary of the SPJ Foundation Board. Sonya also serves on the board of the Washington Press Club Foundation, and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Deputy Vice President

  • Pat Sullivan is a newspaper and digital veteran, reinventing herself as times demand. Most recently, she retired from the Washington Post after 20 years as a reporter and editor. She has since worked on contract for two online news operations in Chicago. Before the Post, where she covered tech, obits, politics and hurricanes (not at the same time), she was executive online editor at a now-defunct technology site in San Francisco, started a highly successful online column at the San Jose Mercury News, covered militias in Missoula, Mont., and cut her reportorial teeth in South Florida during the cocaine cowboys era. Pat joined JAWS in 1993, after a John S. Knight fellowship at Stanford. She co-created JAWS first website, chaired our camp at Sundance, Utah, and served as president in 2000.

Treasurer

  • Joanna Hernandez is a Journalism Department lecturer and director of Inclusion and Diversity at the University Florida College of Journalism and Communications. Hernandez’s 20-plus year journalism career included stints at The Washington Post; the New York Times Regional Media Group; the Newark, New Jersey, Star-Ledger; the San Francisco Examiner; and Newsday. Hernandez has an associate’s degree in word processing from the Borough of Manhattan Community College, a bachelor’s degree in journalism from New York University, and a Master of Public Administration from Baruch College. She is a lifetime member of NAHJ and belongs to other journalism organizations, including JAWS, of course. Hernandez is a Maynard 200 mentor and is a certified trainer in Crucial Conversations.

Secretary

  • Gwyneth Doland has been a working journalist since 1999. She divides her time between journalism and teaching courses in newswriting, media ethics and at the University of New Mexico. She has been a staff writer and editor at newspapers, magazines and online outlets, and have worked as a reporter for public radio and public television. Doland started her career as a food writer but has spent the last decade covering government accountability. She is a past executive director of our state freedom of information group. And she was one of the writers of the Center for Public Integrity’s 50-state corruption risk index, which was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Directors

  • Alison Bethel is Founding Editor-in-Chief of State Affairs, a digital media company with reporters covering state houses across the country with an emphasis on how issues and policies impact everyday citizens. Bethel (formerly Alison Bethel McKenzie) was previously Vice President of Corps Excellence at Report for America (RFA). Before joining RFA, she was Executive Director of the Society of Professional Journalists and Executive Director of the Vienna-based International Press Institute. An award-winning journalist, she has served in senior management positions at The Detroit News, The Boston Globe, the Nassau (Bahamas) Guardian, the Poughkeepsie Journal and Legal Times. She has served as a visiting journalism professor at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media in Bangalore and at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.

  • Jill Cornfield is deputy editor for Money.com. A graduate of Hunter College and a former National Press Foundation fellow in retirement and aging, she was previously senior editor (personal finance and insurance) at Investopedia. Prior to that she was lead reporter for CNBC’s Invest In You channel. She’s been featured in national media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, NBC News and the Huffington Post. She joined JAWS in 2015. She lives with her family in New York City.

  • Suzanne Cosgrove is a journalist, adjunct professor and communications professional who is a content management consultant in Wolters Kluwer’s law and regulations group. Previously, she served as deputy managing editor at John Lothian News. Formerly, she was director of corporate communications at Cboe Global Markets. Before joining Cboe, she was a freelance editor, financial writer and educator. She also was a contributing writer for Market News International.

    She was an adjunct professor of journalism at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University for 10 years and also taught journalism at DePaul University.

    Cosgrove worked as a financial editor at the Chicago Tribune from 2000 through 2009. Also previously, she served as Market News International’s Chicago bureau chief, was a reporter for Reuters, and covered the Chicago futures markets, banking and economics for Knight-Ridder Financial News.

    She was JAWS first mid-career fellow in 2014.

    She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Medill and a bachelor’s degree from Loyola University/Mundelein College.

  • Rachel Jones is the new Director of Journalism Initiatives for the National Press Foundation. Jones has worked as a journalist and media consultant for the past 30+ years in the US and Africa, for companies including the Detroit Free Press, National Public Radio, Internews, the International Center for Journalists, Kenya’s Nation Media Group and Voice of America.

    From 2007 to 2016, Jones also trained and mentored East African journalists to produce news and analysis content on topics including peace and reconciliation, child and reproductive health, health care policy, climate change and sustainability. During her nine years in Nairobi, Jones received a $43,000 grant from the U.K.-based Wellcome Trust, to develop the Kenyan Alliance of Health and Science Reporters journalism training project. She also advised UNICEF Kenya’s Polio Advocacy Working Group partners in developing a communications strategy to stimulate insightful coverage of polio-related issues, as well as a broader range of child health and development areas. From October 2014 to September 2015, Jones served as Editor/Stringer Coordinator for Voice of America’s “South Sudan in Focus” nightly radio broadcast.

    Currently based in Washington, DC, Jones has produced content for National Geographic’s digital platform since 2018. She was also a media consultant for the U.K.-based Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases coalition, Malaria No More UK and Women Deliver. From 2019 to 2023, Jones worked with The Aspen Institute as a writing mentor for their Healthy Communities, New Voices and SOAR Fellowship programs.

    At the National Press Foundation, Jones directs the Widening the Pipeline fellowship program for early career journalists of color, the Future of the American Child fellowship program and the Covering Rare Diseases fellowship program.

  • Linda Jue is editor-at-large for the investigative site 100Reporters and a DEI program consultant for the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. She is also a contracted reporting and writing coach for the Fund for Investigative Journalism as well as a contributing editor for palabra. (sic), NAHJ’s news site. Linda was founding director and editor of the G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism, which mentored journalists of color, women and youth in public interest and investigative reporting. Linda has been at the forefront of nonprofit and independent journalism for the past 20 years, working on innovative journalism and media projects to strengthen the diversity and integrity of the field.

  • Sylvia Snowden is a reporter/anchor/producer at WGN AM 720 in Chicago, IL, where she provides listeners with up-to-the minute information about the most-pressing local and national stories of the day.

    Prior to that, she worked at the city’s public access television network, CAN TV, for more than 15 years. While there, she served as host and producer of the network’s news affairs program, Political Forum. Some of the topics she covered as host of Political Forum include the unique ways Chicago’s West Side youth experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, the battle between Democrats and Republicans over state-wide mask mandates, the 2020 Chicago riots, the legacy of Black women in Chicago politics and Chicago’s 2023 Mayoral race.

    As a native Chicagoan who proudly hails from the city's South Side, Sylvia still enjoys volunteering with many of the community organizations that helped shape her as a young girl, like Target HOPE, a program committed to sending talented inner-city students to college with scholarships.

    Sylvia currently sits on the executive board of the National Association of Black Journalists–Chicago Chapter and serves as chair of the Advocacy Committee. She is also a member of the Chicago Journalists Association and the Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS).

    Sylvia is a proud graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She is the inaugural winner of the People's Choice Award at the 28th Annual Community Media Awards Presented by Public Narrative. She is the 2nd place winner of the Chicago Journalists Association’s top prize, the 2023 Dorothy Storck Award. She is also the 2023 recipient of the legendary JAWS quilt.

  • Barbara Selvin, M.S., is an associate professor of journalism at Stony Brook University, where she is an award-winning teacher. In addition to teaching reporting at all levels, the major’s capstone course, and a course on the economics of the news media in the digital age, Barbara is the School of Journalism’s faculty governance lead and director of internships and careers.

    Before becoming an educator, Barbara was a reporter on New York Newsday’s business desk, writing about economic development, real estate, housing and health-care reform. At Newsday, she proposed and pioneered the company’s first part-time work schedule for newsroom employees, a legacy that outlasted her tenure at the paper. Her freelance work has been published on Poynter.org and in The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and Nieman Reports, and her scholarly work in Grassroots Editor and Literary Journalism Studies. She is a member of JAWS, IRE, the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors and the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies.

    Barbara lives in Port Washington, N.Y. with her husband, Craig Werle. The couple has three adult children and two grandchildren. Her interests include novels, gardening, travel, yoga, beaches and birdwatching.

  • As a 30-year journalist, Keeley Webster has worked for publications from small dailies to her current spot at The Bond Buyer, a national financial publication. At this juncture, her goal beyond continuing to practice good journalism, is to mentor and provide encouragement to younger journalists. When she joined JAWS in 2015, she belonged to SPJ, IRE, NLGJA and AZBEE. But once she joined JAWS, attending four national conferences, and many workshops in L.A, her focus shifted primarily to JAWS. She would like to create partnerships with other journalism organizations, and particularly other affinity groups, to ensure that JAWS matches the country’s diversity.