Society for the Study of Evolution

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Handbook for SSE Council and Committee Members

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Diagram of SSE Leadership structure.

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SSE Council Members: 2025

+ denotes voting members
* denotes Executive Council member

Officers

(Defined by the SSE Constitution, Article 4)

President +* Carol Boggs Department of Biological Sciences University of South Carolina president [at] evolutionsociety.org	President-Elect +* Regina Baucom Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Michigan rsbaucom [at] umich.edu
Past President +* Anne Charmantier Evolutionary and Behavioral Ecology Department Centre D'Ecologie Fonctionnelle & Evolutive anne.charmantier [at] cefe.cnrs.fr	Executive Vice-President +* Howard Rundle Department of Biology University of Ottawa execvp [at] evolutionsociety.org
Secretary +* Amber Rice Department of Biological Sciences Lehigh University secretary [at] evolutionsociety.org	Treasurer + Jeff McKinnon Department of Biology East Carolina University treasurer [at] evolutionsociety.org
North American Vice-President + Aditi Pai Spelman College apai [at] spelman.edu	Non-North American Vice President + María del Rosario Castañeda Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad Icesi mdcastaneda [at] icesi.edu.co
Editor-in-Chief, Evolution + Jason Wolf Milner Centre for Evolution j.b.wolf [at] bath.ac.uk
Councilors
Councilors (2023-2025) +
Danielle Edwards School of Natural Sciences University of California Merced dedwards5 [at] ucmerced.edu	Katie Wagner Department of Botany University of Wyoming amr511 [at] lehigh.edu
Councilors (2024-2026) +
Nancy Chen Department of Biology University of Rochester nancy.chen [at] rochester.edu	Martha Muñoz Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Yale University martha.munoz [at] yale.edu
Rosa Sánchez Guillén Instituto de Ecología A.C. Xalapa, Veracruz, México rosa.sanchez [at] inecol.mx
Councilors (2025-2027) +
Kathleen Kay Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department University of California Santa Cruz kmkay [at] ucsc.edu	Mariana Nery Department of Genetics, Evolution, Microbiology, and Immunology State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) marinery [at] unicamp.br
Brandon Ogbunu Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University brandon.ogbunu [at] yale.edu
Other Voting Council Members
GSAC Chair + Shirley Zhang Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University gsac [at] evolutionsociety.org	GSAC Past Chair + Haosu (Susu) Cong Department of Entomology Michigan State University

Standing Committees: 2025

* denotes Committee designated in Constitution or Bylaws

To learn more about the role and objectives of each committee, please consult the SSE Handbook for Council and Committee Members.

Diversity Committee Laurie Stevison (Co-chair 2024-2025) Martha Burford Reiskind (Co-chair 2025-2026) Bronwyn Bleakley Merai Caldeira Samridhi Chaturvedi Nancy Chen Scott Gevaert Jay Goldberg Jordan Lewis Jill Love Sean Mullen Marliea Oviedo-Diego Elizabeth Ostrowski Carrie Tribble Xianfa Xie Kelly Zamudio diversity [at] evolutionsociety.org Diversity Committee Webpage	Education & Outreach Committee Vanessa Koelling (Chair 2025-2027) Maria Jose Albo Jay Bundy Zach Grochau-Wright Michael Grillo Zach Hancock Katja Kasimatis Elizabeth Lange Maria Orive (ASN representative) Kristina Ramstad Leslie Rissler Sonal Singhal (SSB representative) Meredith Willmott education [at] evolutionsociety.org Education and Outreach Webpage
Ethics Review Committee * Bylaws, Article VI Section 9 Anne Charmantier (Chair as Past-President) Three additional members (TBD)	Finance Committee * Bylaws, Article 4 Courtney Murren (Chair) Howard Rundle Martha Muñoz Troy Day Chris Caruso
Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) Shirley Zhang (Chair) Haosu (Susu) Cong (Past Chair) Prothama Manna (Chair-Elect) Rujuta Vaidya María Tocora Gbolahan Anthony Reis Mete Yuksel GSAC [at] evolutionsociety.org GSAC Webpage	International Affairs Committee María del Rosario Castañeda (Chair) Australia/New Zealand: Henry Arenas-Castro (Australia), Tim Connallon (Australia) Africa: Conrad Mathee (South Africa) Asia: Deepa Agashe (India), N.G. Prasad (India), Srijan Seal (India), Suhua Shi (China) Europe: Arvid Ågren (Sweden), Madlen Prang (Germany), Bibiana Rojas (Austria), Isa-Rita Russo (UK), Vincent Savolainen (UK) North America: Anne Yoder (USA) South America: Thales Moreira de Lima (Brazil), Diogo B. Provete (Brazil) international [at] evolutionsociety.org International Committee Webpage
Nominating Committee * Constitution, Article 5 Catherine Rushworth (Chair) Sara Magalhaes TBD	Public Policy Committee Matthew Rubin (Chair) Amber Rice Katy Heath Florence Débarre (ASN representative) policy [at] evolutionsociety.org Public Policy Committee Webpage

Multi-Society Committees

Code of Conduct Committee Evolution Meeting Brian O’Meara (SSB, Chair) Andrea Case (SSE) Elizabeth Carlen (SSE) Safe Evolution Website	Inclusiveness, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Award Selection Committee Jessica Light (SSB, Chair) Vince Formica (ASN) Susana Wadgymar (SSE) TBD (ASN Student Representative) IDEA Award Webpage

Joint Meeting Committee Alex Wong (Co-chief Meeting Officer) April Wright (Co-chief Meeting Officer) Tara Pelletier (Assistant Meeting Officer) Mike Wiser (Assistant Meeting Officer, Virtual) Aditi Pai (SSE representative) Tracy Heath (SSB representative) Mark McPeek (ASN representative) Howard Rundle (SSE EVP) Evolution Meeting Website	Evolution Letters Oversight Committee Jacintha Ellers (ESEB) (Chair) Amber Rice (SSE Secretary) Andrew McAdam (SSE) Rhonda Snook (ESEB) Thomas Flatt (Member-appointed)

Past Officers

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