{"id":10,"date":"2014-03-20T17:03:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/org.law.gmu.edu\/trailad\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:55:35","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/trialad\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trial Advocacy Board 2026-2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">The Executive Board<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Ashley Martin<\/strong>, <em>President<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Tijen Jones,<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Executive Vice President of Competitions<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Liam McGettigan<\/strong>, <em>Executive Vice President of Membership<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Marcelo De-Almedia<\/strong>, <em>Executive<\/em> <em>Vice President of Problem Writing<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Vice Presidents<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mary Diederich<\/strong>, <em>VP of Advocacy Skills\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Jessica Youssef,<\/strong>\u00a0<em>VP of Competitions<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Evan Poellinger<\/strong>, <em>VP of Thacher<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Nick Harogrue<\/strong>, <em>VP of Costello, Outreach, Recruitment, and Membership<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Christine Jang<\/strong>, <em>VP of Extramurals<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Alex Ainspan<\/strong>, <em>VP of Problem Writing<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Maggie Buss<\/strong>, <em>VP of Evidence<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Tyler Mains<\/strong>, <em>VP of Judges<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Ned Sheehan<\/b>, <em>VP of Witnesses and Bailiffs<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Lauren Negrete<\/b>, <em>VP of Media Relations<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Chair Positions<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Arianne Barlowe<\/strong>, <em>Chair of Costello<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mia Dills,<\/strong> <em>Chair of Scoring (Costello)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Ted Gessner<\/strong>, <em>Chair of Outreach, Recruitment, and Membership<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Casey Schultz<\/strong>, <em>Chair of Extramurals<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Joseph Ford<\/strong>, <em>Chair of Judges<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Nima Kaffi<\/strong>, <em>Chair of Witnesses and Bailiffs<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Bevin Taylor<\/strong>, <em>Chair of\u00a0 Media Relations<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Board Ashley Martin, President Tijen Jones,\u00a0Executive Vice President of Competitions Liam McGettigan, Executive Vice President of Membership Marcelo De-Almedia, Executive Vice President of Problem Writing Vice Presidents Mary Diederich, VP of Advocacy Skills\u00a0 Jessica Youssef,\u00a0VP of Competitions Evan Poellinger, VP of Thacher Nick Harogrue, VP of Costello, Outreach, Recruitment, and Membership Christine Jang, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/trialad\/about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Trial Advocacy Board 2026-2027&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/trialad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/trialad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/trialad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/trialad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/trialad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/trialad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/trialad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/trialad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}