{"id":3696,"date":"2022-05-19T09:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2022-05-19T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:23:37","slug":"aapa-welcomes-new-staff-recognizes-staff-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/19\/aapa-welcomes-new-staff-recognizes-staff-accomplishments\/","title":{"rendered":"AAPA Welcomes New Staff, Recognizes Staff Accomplishments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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AAPA is pleased to announce the hiring of new staff to fill vacant positions and recognition of staff promotions in the association.\u00a0An updated organizational chart can be found here<\/mark>.<\/a>\u00a0 Margaret (Maggie) Soerge<\/strong>l has joined AAPA as the new Director of Conferences and Events. Maggie brings a variety of experience including event management and strategy development from her previous work with The Hill, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and most recently as Director of Strategy for LGND Analytics. She is a graduate of Washington & Lee University.\u00a0Elizabeth (Liz) Mancini will<\/strong> join AAPA on May 31 as Manager of Member Experience. Liz brings deep association experience from The Business Council of N.Y. State, The Estate Planning Council of N.Y. City, International Association of Special Investigation Units, and most recently with Capitol Hill Management Services. She is a graduate of the State University of New York-Oswego.\u00a0Sean Callahan<\/strong> has been named as AAPA\u2019s new Director of Navigation Policy and Legislation and will join the association on May 31. Sean\u2019s well-established legislative experience includes policy advisor, legislative director and Deputy Chief of Staff in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Most recently, Sean has been a senior policy advisor at Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck in Washington, D.C. Throughout his D.C. tenure, he has worked with constituents and clients on authorizations and appropriations involving water resources. Sean graduated from the University of Hawaii, holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs from American University, and matriculated at the Naval Postgraduate School\u2019s Executive Leaders Program. Sean will replace Jim Walker who formally retired last December but has been working on a part-time basis. Jim\u2019s last day is June 30, 2022.\u00a0AAPA\u2019s Shannon McLeod<\/strong> has been promoted to Senior Director of Member Services. Shannon will oversee the development and advancement of AAPA\u2019s value proposition to its members. She will continue to manage and enhance AAPA\u2019s workforce and professional development programs and accreditation of current and future leaders in the port and maritime industry. Shannon will champion AAPA\u2019s efforts to facilitate greater data sharing among its members and the broader freight movement community, including the acquisition and distribution of industry statistics, surveys, market studies and other relevant research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julie Barelas<\/strong> has been promoted to Workforce and Professional Development Associate and will support all aspects of AAPA\u2019s workforce and professional development activities. Julie is committed to serving and supporting workforce development in the port and maritime industries and will continue her work on AAPA’s Department of Labor ACCELerate apprenticeship grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maranda Jones-Anderson<\/strong> has been promoted to Senior Director of Finance and Administration, as well as treasurer of the association. Since joining AAPA in July 2020, Maranda has worked tirelessly to streamline its financial management, accounting and reporting routines, and has taken on the human resources function and helped to significantly improve the employee onboarding and overall employment experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AAPA is pleased to announce the hiring of new staff to fill vacant positions and recognition of staff promotions in the association.\u00a0An updated organizational chart can be found here.\u00a0 Margaret (Maggie) Soergel has joined AAPA as the new Director of Conferences and Events. Maggie brings a variety of experience including event management and strategy development …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":3585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-insights-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}