ASME Board of Directors

	Alison Overholt President Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; Founder, Good People LLC Alison Overholt is an Emmy-, Peabody- and National Magazine Award-winning media executive, creative content strategist and storyteller. She was the founding editor of espnW and in 2016 became the first woman to run a major U.S. sports magazine as editor in chief of ESPN The Magazine. Overholt went on to become senior vice president of Storytelling & Journalism at ESPN, managing a multiplatform portfolio including The ESPYs, “E60,” “Outside the Lines,” the “ESPN Daily” podcast, “30 for 30” podcasts, ESPN’s Investigative Unit and all of ESPN’s global digital long-form journalism, where her teams earned multiple Emmys, Webbys and Gracies, as well as the 2017 National Magazine Award for General Excellence (finalist again in 2020), Folio:’s first-ever Magazine of the Year award in 2019 and the 2019 Peabody for reporting on the Michigan State-USA Gymnastics sex-abuse scandal. Adweek twice named Overholt one of the 30 Most Powerful Women in Sports. She was one of CableFax’s Most Powerful Women in Cable four years running and was also named to CableFax’s list of the most influential multiethnic executives in media. In 2021, Overholt launched and led Oprah Winfrey’s new multiplatform lifestyle brand, Oprah Daily, which became the fastest-growing paid-membership community at Hearst Magazines. In 2023, Overholt founded Good People LLC, a creative content strategy and production company that supports organizations’ strategic storytelling needs with good people, great ideas and exceptional execution. She teaches the business of journalism and media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is strategic advisor to two sports-tech startups, the pro-basketball scouting platform ScoutzApp and the athlete investment platform Vestible. Overholt holds a B.A. with honors in government from Harvard University and lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband, Seth, and their two children.
	Nikhil Swaminathan Vice President Chief Executive Officer, Grist Nikhil Swaminathan is the CEO of Grist. He originally joined Grist in 2017 as a senior editor overseeing the publication's environmental justice coverage. In early 2018 he took over the newsroom, transforming Grist into an authoritative digital magazine and garnering an unprecedented number of awards, including two Edward R. Murrow Awards and its first-ever General Excellence win at the National Magazine Awards. Prior to arriving at Grist, he held editorial positions at Al Jazeera America, Archaeology, GOOD and Scientific American, among other publications. He was in the inaugural class of Ida B. Wells Fellows at Type Investigations (formerly the Investigative Fund). Swaminathan is also a board member of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
	Julia Turner Treasurer Editor in Chief and Cofounder, L.A. Material Julia Turner is the editor in chief and cofounder of L.A. Material, a new digital news outlet covering Los Angeles. Before launching L.A. Material, Turner spent nearly 20 years leading newsrooms through the digital age. At Slate she served as editor in chief and helped turn the magazine into a podcast and membership powerhouse. Then she helped steer entertainment coverage, digital strategy and business bets for the Los Angeles Times. The teams she has guided have won the Pulitzer Prize, the Polk Award, National Magazine Awards and Online Journalism Awards. She is on the board of The Trace and is a fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. She is also a cohost of the long-running Slate “Culture Gabfest” podcast.
	Stephanie Mehta Secretary Chief Executive Officer and Chief Content Officer, Mansueto Ventures Stephanie Mehta is the CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures, parent of Inc. and Fast Company. Most recently, she served as editor in chief of Fast Company, overseeing its print, digital and live journalism. Previously, Mehta served as a deputy editor at Vanity Fair, editing feature stories and coediting the annual New Establishment ranking. She also curated the invitation-only New Establishment Summit and Founders Fair conference for women entrepreneurs, which she launched in 2017. In addition, she has worked as a writer and editor at Bloomberg Media, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. Mehta began her career as a business reporter at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia. She received a B.A. in English and an M.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. A Chicago-area native, she now lives with her husband and two daughters in Scarsdale, New York.
	Rick Berke Cofounder and Executive Editor, STAT Rick Berke is the cofounder and executive editor of STAT, an award-winning media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine and scientific discovery. He moved to Boston in early 2015 as STAT's Employee No. 1, charged with assembling a world-class staff to cover health, medicine and the life sciences. Berke got his start as a reporter for The Baltimore Evening Sun. From there, he spent most of his career at The New York Times, where he was chief political correspondent for more than a decade and, before that, covered assignments including Congress and the White House. For many years he organized the Times' daily news coverage as assistant managing editor for news. He was also assistant managing editor for features, as well as Washington editor, national editor, political editor and video content editor. Before launching STAT, he was executive editor of Politico. He was elected in 2023 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and was a longtime member of the senior advisory committee of the Institute of Politics at Harvard.
	Richard Dorment Editorial Director, Men’s Health and Women's Health Richard Dorment is the editorial director of Men’s Health and Women’s Health, where he oversees the editorial content and operations of the largest health and wellness magazines for men and women around the world. From long-form investigative journalism and dynamic service packages to commerce-driven web features and social-first video initiatives, Men’s Health and Women’s Health reach audiences across site, social, print, and video. Before joining the brands, Dorment was an editor at Wired (where he focused on narrative and reported features on technology, science, culture and business) as well as Esquire, where he spent nine years editing and writing features on culture, politics, fashion and lifestyle for print, web, social, commerce and television. He’s appeared on Meet the Press, Today, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News and many other programs. Dorment lives in New York with his wife and three children, and he does not have six-pack abs.
	Katie Drummond Global Editorial Director, WIRED Katie Drummond is the global editorial director of WIRED, leading content strategy for the brand across all platforms and markets. Prior to joining WIRED, Drummond was the senior vice president of global news and entertainment at VICE, where she led the global expansion of VICE News across Latin America, Europe and Asia and oversaw all VICE digital brands, including Noisey, Munchies, Rec Room, Motherboard and Waypoint. Previously, Drummond held editorial leadership positions at several media outlets, including as deputy editor of Bloomberg.com and editor in chief of the technology website Gizmodo. Drummond graduated from Queen’s University in Canada with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy. She resides in Brooklyn.
	Sid Evans Editor in Chief, Southern Living Sid Evans has been the editor in chief of Southern Living since 2014. From 2011 until 2014, he was a Group Editor overseeing multiple titles, including Southern Living, Coastal Living, Cooking Light, Sunset and This Old House. He has also served as editor in chief of Garden & Gun, Field & Stream and Men’s Journal. His awards include a National Magazine Award for General Excellence and more than 15 National Magazine Award nominations, as well as many awards from Folio:, the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP), the Society of American Travel Writers and other organizations. He has written for numerous publications, often about the South, and he is the host of "Biscuits & Jam," a weekly podcast about food, music and Southern culture. He is originally from Memphis, Tennessee, and he lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with his wife and two children.
	Jeffrey Goldberg Editor in Chief, The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor in chief of The Atlantic and the moderator of Washington Week With The Atlantic on PBS. Goldberg is the 15th person to serve as editor in chief in The Atlantic's 168-year history. Under Goldberg’s leadership, The Atlantic has won the first three Pulitzer Prizes in its history and set new records for subscriptions. The Atlantic also won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by the magazine industry, for three years in a row, from 2022 to 2024. Goldberg's most recent book, On Heroism, is an expansion of his explosive reporting about former President Donald Trump’s contempt for and repeated disparagement of military service members—a story Goldberg originally broke. Goldberg is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the Daniel Pearl Award for Reporting, the Overseas Press Club’s award for human-rights reporting and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Prize for best investigative reporter.
	Nathan Lump Senior Vice President and Editor in Chief, National Geographic Nathan Lump is senior vice president and editor in chief of National Geographic. He leads the strategic and creative development of National Geographic’s editorial content across all platforms: National Geographic’s print titles (the monthly flagship edition; National Geographic Kids, Little Kids and History magazines; and single-topic newsstand special editions), NationalGeographic.com and social media. He manages a team of 100-plus editors, writers, designers, cartographers and engineers, as well as a global community of contributors, all dedicated to continuing National Geographic’s 138 years of fact-based storytelling that inspires a deeper connection to our world. Under Lump’s direction, National Geographic has expanded its focus on digital content and experiences to drive subscriber growth and engagement, including the development of award-winning multimedia interactive features, as well as video-based content for social media platforms, on which National Geographic has more aggregate followers than any other brand in the world. In addition to nominations and awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors, the brand’s work has been recognized by the Webby Awards, the Society of Publication Designers (which named Nat Geo its Brand of the Year in 2024), the Society of News Design, the National Press Photographers Association, Pictures of the Year International and many more. Lump joined National Geographic in 2022, following years in editorial leadership roles at Time Inc., where he was editor in chief of Travel + Leisure and editorial director of the Luxury & Lifestyle Group; Condé Nast; The New York Times; and more. He has also periodically worked outside the media industry, spending several years at two major advertising agencies, where he led content strategy, and at Expedia Group, where he served as Global Head of Editorial and Engagement and Head of Customer Marketing for the Expedia brand.
	Ross McCammon Editor in Chief, Texas Monthly Ross McCammon is the editor in chief of Texas Monthly. He has held senior editorial positions at Esquire, GQ, Men’s Health and Popular Mechanics. McCammon has written features for Wired, Elle, Bloomberg Businessweek, Cosmopolitan and The Wall Street Journal. His book Works Well With Others, published by Dutton, investigates the relationship between workplace behavior and career success. The New York Times called it “charmingly finicky.” McCammon was born in Houston and grew up in Dallas. After spending almost 20 years in New York, he now lives in Austin with his wife and two children.
	Nikki Ogunnaike Editor in Chief, Marie Claire Nikki Ogunnaike is the editor in chief of Marie Claire US. She has previously held editorial roles at Harper's Bazaar, GQ, ELLE, Glamour, InStyle and Vanity Fair. She authors the popular Marie Claire newsletter “Self Checkout.” You may also recognize Ogunnaike from her time as the host of Snapchat’s “Online, IRL” and IGTV's “The Run Through.” Based in Brooklyn, New York, Ogunnaike enjoys running half marathons, learning about wine and watching reality TV without an ounce of shame. You can follow her at @nikkiogun.
	Swati Sharma Editor in Chief and Publisher, Vox Swati Sharma is the editor in chief and publisher of Vox, the premier explanatory-journalism network at Vox Media. Sharma previously spent her career at legacy news organizations, most recently as a managing editor at The Atlantic, where she oversaw digital coverage through a pandemic, a racial reckoning, two years of Trump’s presidency and a historic election. Before that, she spent more than four years at The Washington Post and three years at The Boston Globe.
	Ivylise Simones Creative Director, Slate Ivylise Simones is the creative director at Slate, where she leads editorial design and oversees the newsroom’s visuals department. She is the first creative director elected to the American Society of Magazine Editors board of directors. With extensive experience in visual leadership, she has guided art departments and shaped design at HuffPost, WIRED, Mother Jones, The New York Observer, The Village Voice, Showtime, People and Popular Science. In 2016 she led the award-winning redesign and rebrand of Mother Jones. Originally from Miami, Simones now lives in New York with her husband and daughter.
	Amanda Kludt Immediate Past President Senior Editor, Newsroom Projects & Initiatives, The New York Times Amanda Kludt is a journalist and media executive who built Eater, one of America's largest and most influential food publications, into a juggernaut of award-winning service, reporting and entertainment. She is now responsible for leading Newsroom Projects & Initiatives at The New York Times, focusing on impactful storytelling, connecting the dots across a complex organization and supporting newsroom ambitions.

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