PACE Board of Directors 2020-21

President — Victor Prieto

Victor Prieto was first introduced to quizbowl at Rice University in 2011. After graduating in 2015, he entered a doctoral program for 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 VP of Outreach from 2016 to 2017, VP of Tournament Direction in 2019, and Secretary from 2019 to 2020.

Treasurer  — Joe Nutter

Joe Nutter began playing quizbowl for Walnut Hills High School in 2007. He played throughout high school and continued his playing career at Michigan State University, where he served as team president from 2012 to 2014. Since graduation, Joe has continued to be active in the quizbowl community through staffing tournaments, and has attended every NSC since 2011. Joe has been a PACE member since 2014 and previously served as secretary in the 2016 academic year. Joe lives in Atlanta, where he works as a consultant on payments.

Secretary — Catherine Qian

Catherine Qian is a third year in the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where she played quizbowl from 2018-2019. Prior, she played for Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School from 2014-2018, where she also edited and served as the Tournament Director for GSAC XXV. As a former recipient of PACE’s Morgan Costa-Rhodes Memorial Scholarship, Catherine is passionate about efforts to make quizbowl a more diverse and accessible activity.

Vice President of Editing — Michael Bentley

Michael Bentley played quizbowl at West Chester East High School in Pennsylvania and at the University of Maryland. He currently lives and works in the Seattle area and is involved with the quizbowl team at the University of Washington. Bentley has written and edited for numerous tournaments, including both iterations of College History Bowl and the projector-based tournament Eyes That Do Not See, in which players identify visual artworks from image slides.

Vice President of Tournament Direction — Casey Bindas

Casey Bindas played quizbowl at Canton High School in Michigan, the University of Central Florida, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Michigan Technological University.  He directed tournaments at Michigan Tech and served as club president.  He currently lives in Georgia where he continues to staff high school and college quizbowl tournaments.  Casey has been a member of PACE since 2018 and worked in a control room at the 2019 NSC.  

Vice President of Event Management — Bernadette Spencer

Bernadette Spencer has been a member of PACE since 2008. She has edited religion, philosophy, and social science for multiple NSCs. As Vice President of Event Management of the PACE board, she manages the logistical aspects of the NSC’s physical location and serves as PACE’s liaison with the hotel in which it is hosted.

Director of Communications — Rebecca Rosenthal

Rebecca Rosenthal has been a member of PACE since 2018 and an organizer of quizbowl events since 2014. She served as a team captain of Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, NJ and the founding president of the most recent iteration of the Swarthmore College quizbowl team. She is now a Latin educator living in San Antonio, Texas. She has been a liveblogger, liveblog coordinator and photographer at past NSCs, and will be serving her second term as PACE’s Director of Communication.

Vice President of Outreach — David Reinstein

David Reinstein was PACE President for two years. He writes the Scobol Solo and Illinois Masonic sets each year, and he directs the New Trier Scobol Solo and New Trier Varsity tournaments. He is an IHSSBCA Board Member and served as Chair for ten years. David coached the New Trier team for 17 years and is in his 29th year of teaching.

Vice President of Technology — Harry White

Harry White started playing Quizbowl in 2007 at Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, VA and continued his career in college at Virginia Tech. He currently resides in Northern Virginia, where he volunteers to staff tournaments in the local area. Harry created and continues to maintain the Quizbowl Tournament Database Search, which allows people to find tournament results for players and teams.

Current Membership List

Name	Date Joined	Affiliation	Home State
Aaron Rosenberg	2008 - June	University of Illinois	VA
Aidan Mehigan	2012 - July	Columbia University	VA
Akshata Pisharody	2019 - July	College of William and Mary	VA
Alejandro Lopez-Lago	2020 - January	University of Washington	WA
Andrew Feist	2015 - June	Duke University	VA
Andrew Wang	2016 - July	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	IL
Ankit Aggarwal	2016 - July	University of California, Berkeley	CA
Athena Kern	2016 - January	University of Chicago	IL
Bernadette Spencer	2008 - June	Minneapolis Community and Technical College	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 University	TN
Chloe Levine	2018 - July	Harvard University	NY
Chris Ray	2007 - June	The Ohio State University	OH
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 Reinstein	2014 - January	New Trier High School	IL
Dylan Minarik	2017 - July	Northwestern University	WI
Emily Dickson	2018 - July	University of Pittsburgh	PA
Eric Xu	2018 - July	University of Virginia	VA
Erik Nelson	2018 - July	Play Quiz Bowl	MN
Fred Morlan	2008 - June	University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy	KY
Harry White	2019 - July	Virginia Polytechnic Institute	VA
Ian Drayer	2016 - July	University of California, Los Angeles	CA
Ike Jose	2016 - July	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	IL
Jackie Wu	2018 - July	Carnegie Mellon University	PA
James Malouf	2019 - July	University of California, Berkeley	CA
Jason Cheng	2014 - June	University of California, San Diego	CA
Jay Winter	2020 - July	Waukee High School, Iowa Quiz Bowl League	IA
Jennie Yang	2018 - July	Stanford University	CA
Joe Nutter	2014 - January	Michigan State University	GA
Joelle Smart	2012 - July	Rutgers University	NJ
Jon Pinyan	2012 - July	Bergen County Academies	NJ
Jon Suh	2018 - July	Harvard University	MA
Joshua Rutsky	2018 - July	Hoover High School, Alabama Scholastic Competition Association	AL
Julia Tong	2019 - July	Columbia University	NY
Kady Hsu	2019 - July	University of California, Berkeley	CA
Margaret Tebbe	2019 - July	University of Pennsylvania	PA
Marianna Zhang	2014 - June	Stanford University	CA
Mason Guillot	2018 - July	Louisiana State University	LA
Matt Mitchell	2018 - January	University of Colorado	CO
Michael Bentley	2008 - June	University of Washington	WA
Michael Borecki	2018 - July	Bowdoin College	ME
Michael Hundley	2012 - July	Virginia Tech	VA
Michael Sorice	2008 - June	University of Illinois, Champaign-Centennial High School	IL
Moses Kitakule	2020 - July		MD
Naveed Chowdhury	2019 - July	University of Maryland, College Park	MD
Nicholas Clusserath	2016 - January	Clemson University	CO
Niki Peters	2016 - July	University of California, Berkeley	CA
Ophir Lifshitz	2017 - February	University of Maryland, College Park	MD
Peter Torres	2018 - July	University of Central Florida	FL
Ramapriya Rangaraju	2019 - July	University of Louisville	KY
Rebecca Rosenthal	2018 - July	Swarthmore College	PA
Rob Carson	2008 - June	University of Minnesota	MN
Ryan Rosenberg	2014 - January	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	IL
Sadie Britton	2020 - January	William & Mary	VA
Sam Luongo	2010 - July	Virginia Commonwealth University	VA
Sarang Yeola	2018 - July	University of Maryland, College Park	MD
Sohum Shenoy	2020 - July	Georgia Institute of Technology	GA
Stephen Eltinge	2012 - July	Yale University	CT
Tejas Raje	2019 - February	Cornell University	IL
Tejas Santanam	2019 - July	Georgia Institute of Technology	GA
Tora Husar	2020 - July	University of Minnesota	MN
Tracy Mirkin	2019 - July	University of Florida	FL
Victor Prieto	2015 - June	Pennsylvania State University	PA
Young Fenimore Lee	2018 - July	Stanford University	IL

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