NAfME Advocacy Leadership Force
If your state has a designated Advocacy Leadership Force (ALF) representative, you will find their email address below. If you do not see a contact for your state, please reach out to the NAfME advocacy team at advocacy@nafme.org for further assistance.
Thanks for being part of our grassroots efforts to advance access to high-quality music education across the country!
- Alabama: Rob Lyda — lydarob@me.com
- Alaska: Christopher Lubken — lubken_christopher@asdk12.org
- Arizona: Ellen Kirkbride — elkirk@comcast.net
- Arkansas: Jann Knighten — jknighte@uark.edu
- California: Anthony Dahl — adahl@losmedanos.edu
- Colorado: Cynthia Eversole — advocacymanagercmea@cmeaonline.org
- Connecticut: Amy Perras — advocacychair@cmea.org
- Delaware: Anna Ramon — aramon@delawaremea.org
- District of Columbia: Kristopher Ring — Kristopher.Ring@k12.dc.gov
- Florida: Jeanne Reynolds — jeannewrey@gmail.com
- Georgia: Cat Keyser — ckeyser@forsyth.k12.ga.us
- Hawaii: Kim Barclift — barclift@hawaii.edu
- Idaho: Bob Wicks — wickscrew@gmail.com
- Indiana: Shaina Liv Lescano — shainalivterano@msdlt.k12.in.us
- Iowa: David Law — maestrolaw@gmail.com
- Kentucky: Cedrick Leavell — cedrick.leavell@warren.kyschools.us
- Louisiana: Duane LeBlanc — advocacy@lmeamusic.org
- Maine: Heidi Corliss — advocacychair@mainemea.org
- Maryland: Doug Conrad — dougconrad@gmail.com
- Massachusetts: Allyson Rottman — advocacy@massmea.org
- Michigan: Kenneth Smith — kenneth.smith@wmich.edu
- Minnesota: Gunnar Aas — gaas@mmea.org
- Mississippi: Hannah Gadd Adrey — hannahegadd@gmail.com
- Missouri: Roy Maxwell — Government.relations@mmea.net
- Montana: Amy Schendel — schendelac@billingsschools.org
- Nebraska: Carrie Jensen — carriejensen@npsne.org
- Nevada: Amy Symes — asymes@nmeamusic.org
- New Hampshire: Serena Gorham — serena.gorham@sau24.org
- New Mexico: Daniel Fear — nmmeaadvocacy@nmmea.com
- New York: Mastrangelo Michael — grc@nyssma.org
- North Carolina: James Daugherty — jdaugherty@ncmea.net
- North Dakota: Whitney Berry — advocacy@ndmea.org
- Ohio: Austin Ahlborn — ahlborn.6@buckeyemail.osu.edu
- Oklahoma: Mike Raiber — raiberm@mustangps.org
- Oregon: Laura Arthur — publicpolicy@oregonmea.org
- Pennsylvania: Mark Despotakis — advocacy@pmea.net
- South Carolina: Allie Dombkowski — allie.dombkowski@scmea.net
- Tennessee: Christopher Dye — christopher.dye@mtsu.edu
- Texas: AJ Marks — ajmarks21@gmail.com
- Utah: Mitch Hall — mitch.hall@umea.us
- Vermont: John Moton — advocacy@vmea.org
- Virginia: Nick Lenoard — advocacy@vmea.com
- Washington: Beth Fortune — beth@wmea.org
- West Virginia: Genesis Mihalko — wvmeaadvocacy@gmail.com
- Wisconsin: Randal Swiggum — raswiggum@madison.k12.wi.us
- Wyoming: Nathan Searcey — advocacy.chair@wyomea.org