PACE Board of Directors 2022-23
Mia McGill – President
Mia McGill (she/they) joined PACE in 2021, but has been involved with quizbowl since 2015. She lives (and staffs tournaments) in Minnesota, where she coaches both the Irondale High School and state NASAT teams. She’s passionate about equity, accessibility, and misconduct reform within quizbowl, and is excited to spend the next few years working to improve PACE’s infrastructure to make the organization’s programs (including NSC) the best that they can be.
Michael Bentley – Treasurer
Michael Bentley joined PACE in 2008. He has formerly served as PACE’s President and VP of Editing. He has also worked on technology projects with PACE including an online tournament guide, a USB buzzer system, and the QEMS2 question management system. Michael is based in Seattle and continues to play and write open tournaments.
Victor Prieto – Secretary
Victor Prieto (he/him) was first introduced to quizbowl at Rice University in 2011. After graduating in 2015, he completed a doctoral program in chemistry at Penn State, where he was pivotal in building a strong quizbowl program that is now a central component of the Pennsylvania circuit (both at the high school and college level). Victor joined PACE in 2015, and edited science for the 2016 and 2018 NSCs. He has previously held the offices of President from 2020-2022, VP of Tournament Direction in 2019, Secretary from 2019 to 2020, and VP of Outreach from 2016 to 2017. He currently lives in Queens, NY.
Ganon Evans – Vice President of Editing
Ganon Evans (he/him) recently joined PACE in 2022, and is excited to make a difference. From his home in the Kansas City area, Ganon can be found regularly staffing tournaments for the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance as well as collegiate events. He is an avid writer and editor of questions, varying from regular high schools sets to NASAT. Ganon is interested in creating resources to get people interested in writing high-quality questions early in their quizbowl careers.
Ben Weiner – Vice President of Tournament Direction
Ben Weiner (he/him) joined PACE in 2021, and has been involved with quizbowl since 2016. He lives in Minneapolis, MN where he attends the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and serves as the President of UMN Quizbowl. He’s passionate about the growth of quizbowl at the high school level by making pyramidal more accessible for all players and teams. He is looking forward to making the 2023 NSC weekend a seamless experience for players, coaches, and staff.
Casey Bindas – Vice President of Event Management
Casey Bindas has been a member of PACE since 2018, and previously served as the VP of Tournament Direction in 2021. He played quizbowl at Canton High School in Michigan, the University of Central Florida, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Michigan Technological University. He currently lives in Georgia where he continues to staff high school and college quizbowl tournaments. Casey is passionate about tournament logistics and is looking forward to making the 2023 NSC a great experience for all.
Rebecca Rosenthal – Director of Communications
Rebecca Rosenthal (she/her) has been a PACE member since 2018, and previously served two terms as Director of Communications. She is currently a middle school Classics teacher based in Philadelphia. As a quizbowl community member, she is passionate about increasing access and awareness through professionalized communications. She previously served as a coach and club leader at Swarthmore College, where she first became interested in serving the high school quizbowl community through Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl’s outreach efforts.
Sadie Britton – Vice President of Outreach
Sadie Britton joined PACE in 2020 and has worn various hats in that time, from Riley Conference moderator and NSC liveblogger to communications committee member—but she’s done quizbowl in various formats since she was in middle school. She is an alum of the College of William & Mary, where she served on the executive board of their quizbowl team for two years. Sadie is passionate about making the quizbowl community a safe, inclusive, and welcoming space, and looks forward to supporting new and emerging teams and circuits as PACE’s VP of Outreach. Sadie is currently in graduate school at the University of Mississippi.
Harry White – Vice President of Technology
Harry White has been a member of PACE since 2019, but began doing quizbowl in high school back in 2007. He has long since retired from playing, but enjoys staffing events, running stats, and creating online tools such as the database search and live stats for the NSC and ACF Nationals. He is always looking for a new tech project to work on, and is looking forward to help PACE develop new tools in the upcoming year.
List of Members
Name | Date Joined | Affiliation | Home State |
Aaron Rosenberg | 2008 - June | University of Illinois | VA |
Aidan Mehigan | 2012 - July | Columbia University | NJ |
Akshata Pisharody | 2019 - July | Washington University in St. Louis | VA |
Albert Zhang | 2021 - July | Columbia University | NY |
Alejandro Lopez-Lago | 2020 - January | University of Washington | WA |
Andrew Wang | 2016 - July | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | IL |
Ankit Aggarwal | 2016 - July | University of California, Berkeley | CA |
Antonio Jimenez | 2021 - January | University of Pennsylvania | PA |
Athena Kern | 2016 - January | Washington University in St. Louis | KY |
Ben Kirk | 2022 - July | Ithaca High School | NY |
Ben Weiner | 2021 - July | University of Minnesota | MN |
Bing Bingham | 2020 - July | Wright State University | OH |
Casey Bindas | 2018 - July | Michigan Technological University | GA |
Catherine Qian | 2020 - July | University of Pennsylvania | VA |
Chandler West | 2020 - January | Vanderbilt Unviersity | TN |
Chloe Levine | 2018 - July | Harvard University | NY |
Chris Ray | 2007 - June | The Ohio State University | MD |
Cody Voight | 2014 - June | Virginia Commonwealth University | VA |
Colin McNamara | 2011 - July | Boise State University | ID |
Connie Tzeng | 2019 - July | University of Chicago | IL |
David Bass | 2023 - January | University of Virginia | VA |
Dylan Minarik | 2017 - June | Northwestern University | WI |
Em Gunter | 2021 - July | University of Virginia | VA |
Fred Morlan | 2008 - June | University of Kentucky School of Pharmacy | KY |
Ganon Evans | 2022 - July | University of Iowa | MO |
Harry White | 2019 - July | Virginia Polytechnic Institute | VA |
Jay Winter | 2020 - July | Waukee High School Coach, Iowa Quiz Bowl League CEO | IA |
Joe Nutter | 2014 - January | Michigan State University | GA |
Jonathan Pinyan | 2012 - July | Bergen County Academies | NJ |
Joseph Krol | 2022 - July | University of Cambridge | UK |
Joshua Rutsky | 2018 - July | Hoover High School, Alabama Scholastic Competition Association | AL |
Kady Hsu | 2019 - July | University of California, Berkeley | CA |
Katherine Lei | 2021 - January | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MA |
Lauren Onel | 2021 - January | University of Chicago | IL |
Margaret Tebbe | 2019 - July | University of Pennsylvania | PA |
Marianna Zhang | 2014 - June | Stanford University | CA |
Mia McGill | 2021 - July | Irondale High School | MN |
Michael Bentley | 2008 - June | University of Washington | WA |
Michael Borecki | 2018 - July | Bowdoin College | ME |
Michael Hundley | 2012 - July | Virginia Polytechnic Institute | VA |
Michael Sorice | 2008 - June | University of Illinois, Rantoul Township High School (Rantoul, IL) | IL |
Moses Kitakule | 2020 - July | Columbia University | MD |
Naveed Chowdhury | 2019 - July | University of Maryland | GA |
Nina Kaushikkar | 2022 - July | University of Minnesota | MN |
Ophir Lifshitz | 2017 - February | University of Maryland | MD |
Rahul Keyal | 2021 - July | University of California, Berkeley | CA |
Ramapriya Rangaraju | 2019 - July | University of Louisville | KY |
Rebecca Rosenthal | 2018 - July | Swarthmore College | TX |
Rob Carson | 2008 - June | University of Minnesota | MN |
Ryan Ritter | 2023 - January | James Madison | VA |
Ryan Rosenberg | 2014 - January | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | CA |
S.A. Shenoy | 2020 - July | Georgia Institute of Technology | GA |
Sadie Britton | 2020 - January | College of William and Mary | VA |
Sam Luongo | 2010 - July | Virginia Commonwealth University | VA |
Sarang Yeola | 2018 - July | University of Colorado, Boulder | CO |
Tejas Raje | 2019 - February | Cornell University | IL |
Tejas Santanam | 2019 - July | Georgia Institute of Technology | GA |
Tracy Mirkin | 2019 - July | University of Florida | FL |
Victor Prieto | 2015 - June | Penn State University | MA |
Vivian Malouf | 2019 - July | University of California, Berkeley | CA |
Will Grossman | 2021 - January | University of Florida | FL |
Wonyoung Jang | 2021 - July | University of Chicago | IL |
Zac Bennett | 2022 - July | University of Oklahoma | OK |
Former Boards of Directors
Year | President | Treasurer | Secretary | VP of Tournament Direction | VP of Editing | Director of Communications | VP of Outreach | VP of Technology | VP of Event Management | At-Large |
2022 | Victor Prieto | Joe Nutter | Catherine Qian | Emily Dickson | Michael Bentley | Mia McGill | Colin McNamara | S.A. Shenoy | Bernadette Spencer | |
2021 | Victor Prieto | Joe Nutter | Catherine Qian | Casey Bindas | Michael Bentley | Rebecca Rosenthal | David Reinstein | Harry White | Bernadette Spencer | |
2020 | Sam Luongo | Joe Nutter | Victor Prieto | Emily Dickson | Michael Bentley | Rebecca Rosenthal | David Reinstein | Harry White | Bernadette Spencer | |
2019 | Fred Morlan | Michael Bentley | Michael Hundley | Victor Prieto | Ike Jose | Dylan Minarik | Chuck Pearson / Jackie Wu | Andrew Feist | Bernadette Spencer | |
2018 | David Reinstein | Michael Bentley | Michael Hundley | Ryan Rosenberg | Rob Carson | Niki Peters / Alex Damisch | Fred Morlan | Ophir Lifshitz | Bernadette Spencer | |
2017 | David Reinstein | Michael Bentley | Michael Hundley | Gaurav Kandlikar | Rob Carson | Marianna Zhang | Victor Prieto | Andrew Feist | Bernadette Spencer (position created) | (position abolished) |
2016 | Michael Bentley | David Reinstein | Joe Nutter | Mike Sorice | Jordan Brownstein | Marianna Zhang | Nicholas Karas | Andrew Feist | Bernadette Spencer | |
2015 | Matt Jackson | Michael Bentley | Jacob Wasserman | Sam Luongo | Auroni Gupta | Ryan Rosenberg | Nicholas Karas | Stephen Eltinge | Bernadette Spencer | |
2014 | Michael Bentley | Brian Mongilio | Aidan Mehigan | Sam Luongo | Rob Carson | Michael Hundley | Matt Jackson | Stephen Eltinge | Matt Weiner | |
2013 | Michael Bentley | Aaron Rosenberg | Julie Gittings | Matt Weiner | Eric Mukherjee | Sam Luongo | Lily Chen / Matt Jackson | Dan Goff | Fred Morlan | |
2012 | Michael Bentley | Aaron Rosenberg | Janet Berry | Matt Weiner | Chris Ray / Eric Mukherjee | Sam Luongo | Isaac Hirsch | Dan Goff | Fred Morlan | |
2011 | Trygve Meade | Donald Taylor | Carsten Gehring | Gautam Kandlikar (and Andrew Hart)* | Andy Watkins | Hannah Kirsch | Charlie Dees | Dan Goff | Ian Eppler | |
2010 | Fred Morlan | Donald Taylor | Carsten Gehring | Mike Sorice | Chris Ray | Trygve Meade | Eric Douglass | Chris Carter | Matt Weiner | |
2009 | E. Thomas Chuck | Evan Silberman (and Matt Weiner) | Andrew Hart | |||||||
2008 | Jessie Connolly Francis | Matt Weiner | ||||||||
2007 | Dan Greenstein | Matt Weiner | ||||||||
2006 | Dan Greenstein | Matt Weiner | ||||||||
2005 | Dan Greenstein | Matt Weiner | ||||||||
2004 | Dan Greenstein | Matt Weiner | ||||||||
2003 | Allison Manzuk | Matt Weiner | ||||||||
2002 | Brian Saxton | Matt Weiner | ||||||||
2001 | David Bykowski | Anthony de Jesus | ||||||||
2000 | Samer Ismail | E. Thomas Chuck | ||||||||
1999 | Samer Ismail | Samer Ismail | ||||||||
1998 | Samer Ismail | Samer Ismail |
*Matt Weiner elected and immediately resigned. GK/AH ticket ran in special election and won, with GK to cast votes on board matters.
Former Members
Joined PACE | Left PACE | |
Jonathan Lazar (Founder) | 1997 - January | 1998 - January |
Darrah Densmore | 1998 - January | 2000 - January |
Shawn Pickrell | 1998 - January | 2000 - January |
David Balsiero | 2000 - January | 2000 - January |
Eric Huff | 2000 - January | 2000 - January |
Anthony de Jesus (Trustee) | 1998 - January | 2001 - January |
Brian Saxton (Trustee) | 1999 - January | 2002 - January |
Samer T. Ismail (Founder) | 1997 - January | 2003 - January |
Edmund Schluessel (Trustee) | 2000 - January | 2003 - January |
Allison Manzuk | 2000 - January | 2004 - January |
David Bykowski | 1998 - January | 2009 - January |
Patricia Southard Greenstein | 2000 - January | 2009 - January |
Jessie Connolly | 2002 - January | 2009 - January |
Dan Greenstein | 2003 - January | 2009 - January |
Derek Winkler | 2003 - January | 2009 - January |
Evan Silberman | 2007 - January | 2009 - January |
Evan Nagler | 2008 - January | 2009 - January |
Chris Carter | 2009 - January | 2009 - January |
Matt Weiner | 2000 - January | 2010 - January |
Eric Douglass | 2006 - January | 2010 - January |
Charlie Dees | 2008 - January | 2010 - January |
Dennis Jang | 2008 - January | 2010 - January |
Ted Gioia | 2008 - January | 2010 - January |
Ahmed Ismail | 2004 - January | 2011 - January |
Andrew Hart | 2008 - January | 2011 - January |
Gautam Kandlikar | 2008 - January | 2011 - January |
Jonathan Magin | 2008 - January | 2011 - January |
Trygve Meade | 2008 - January | 2011 - January |
Andy Watkins | 2009 - January | 2011 - January |
Donald Taylor | 2009 - January | 2011 - January |
Ian Eppler | 2009 - January | 2011 - January |
Matt Chadbourne | 2009 - January | 2011 - January |
Chris Chiego | 2010 - January | 2011 - January |
Mehdi Razvi | 2008 - January | 2012 - January |
Daichi Ueda | 2009 - January | 2012 - January |
Dwight Wynne | 2009 - January | 2012 - January |
Emil Thomas Chuck (Founder) | 1997 - January | 2013 - January |
Kyle Haddad-Fonda | 2008 - January | 2013 - January |
Cameron Orth | 2009 - January | 2013 - January |
Guy Tabachnick | 2009 - January | 2013 - January |
Hannah Kirsch | 2009 - January | 2013 - January |
Wes Austin | 2010 - January | 2013 - January |
Lily Chen | 2012 - January | 2013 - January |
Sharad Vikram | 2012 - January | 2013 - January |
Tanay Kothari | 2012 - January | 2013 - January |
Steve Yang | 2006 - January | 2014 - January |
Dan Goff | 2008 - January | 2014 - January |
Will Butler | 2009 - January | 2014 - January |
Isaac Hirsch | 2011 - January | 2014 - January |
Brian Mongilio | 2012 - January | 2014 - January |
Matt Weiner | 2012 - January | 2015 - January |
Carsten Gehring | 2008 - January | 2015 - January |
Janet Berry | 2009 - January | 2015 - January |
Jeffrey Hill | 2009 - January | 2015 - January |
David Riley | 2012 - January | 2015 - January |
Olivia Murton | 2014 - January | 2015 - January |
Jacob Wasserman | 2012 - January | 2016 - January |
Matthew Jackson | 2012 - January | 2016 - January |
Adam Silverman | 2014 - January | 2016 - January |
Nicholas Karas | 2014 - January | 2016 - January |
Rahul Annabathula | 2015 - January | 2016 - January |
Andrew Nadig | 2016 - January | 2016 - July |
Benjamin Herman | 2015 - January | 2016 - September |
Allison Murner | 2015 - January | 2017 - January |
Matt Bollinger | 2011 - July | 2017 - January |
Auroni Gupta | 2009 - June | 2017 - January |
Jasper Lee | 2013 - June | 2018 - January |
Max Schindler | 2013 - June | 2018 - June |
Ryan Humphrey | 2017 - July | 2018 - July |
Jarrett Greene | 2015 - June | 2018 - September |
Dan Puma | 2014 - June | 2018 - December |
Gaurav Kandlikar | 2015 - June | 2018 - December |
Nathan Weiser | 2014 - June | 2019 - January |
Richard Yu | 2014 - January | 2019 - January |
Daniel Hothem | 2012 - July | 2019 - January |
Chris Greenwood | 2011 - July | 2019 - June |
Jakob Myers | 2018 - July | 2019 - June |
Julie Gittings | 2011 - July | 2019 - June |
Chuck Pearson | 2018 - July | 2019 - June |
Jason Loy | 2012 - July | 2019 - June |
Roxanne Ilagan | 2015 - June | 2019 - July |
Ben Zhang | 2014 - June | 2019 - August |
Eddie Kim | 2016 - July | 2019 - August |
Ben Anthony | 2018 - July | 2019 - October |
Olivia Lamberti | 2019 - July | 2019 - November |
Eric Mukherjee | 2008 - June | 2020 - April |
Alex Damisch | 2017 - July | 2020 - April |
Jordan Brownstein | 2015 - June | 2020 - June |
Jacob Reed | 2018 - July | 2020 - July |
Erik Nelson | 2018 - July | 2020 - November |
Jason Cheng | 2014 - June | 2020 - August |
Mason Guillot | 2018 - July | 2020 - August |
Niki Peters | 2016 - July | 2020 - September |
Nicholas Clusserath | 2016 - January | 2020 - December |
Matt Mitchell | 2018 - January | 2020 - December |
Peter Torres | 2018 - July | 2021 - January |
Jennie Yang | 2018 - July | 2021 - February |
Ian Drayer | 2016 - July | 2021 - May |
Young Fenimore Lee | 2018 - July | 2021 - June |
Ike Jose | 2009 - January | 2021 - September |
Bernadette Spencer | 2008 - June | 2022 - June |
David Reinstein | 2014 - January | 2022 - June |
Emily Dickson | 2018 - July | 2022 - June |
Tora Husar | 2020 - July | 2022 - June |
Stephen Eltinge | 2012 - July | 2022 - September |
Jackie Wu | 2018 - July | 2022 - September |
Joelle Smart | 2012 - July | 2022 - October |
Julia Tong | 2019 - July | 2022 - October |
Jon Suh | 2018 - July | 2022 - October |
Andrew Feist | 2015 - June | 2022 - October |