Officers and Directors

2024-2025

Officers

President

Beth Short

Director of Outreach and Education

Ohio Attorney General

Charitable Law Section

30 E. Broad St., 25th floor

Columbus, OH 43215

Email: Beth.Short@OhioAGO.Gov

Vice President

Joshua Studor

Assistant Attorney General

Washington State Attorney General

Consumer Protection Division – Charitable Asset Protection Team

Secretary

Michael Schlein

Director

Maryland Office of the Secretary of State

Charities & Legal Services Division

Treasurer

Kim Wickersham

Director

South Carolina Secretary of State

Public Charities Division

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This is the Privacy Policy of the National Association of State Charity Officials (“NASCO”). The official website of NASCO is www.nasconet.org. NASCO is committed to protecting the privacy of its members and of individuals who visit the NASCO website. This Privacy Policy addresses the type of personally identifiable information NASCO collects, how NASCO uses that information and how NASCO protects it.

NASCO collects personal information about individuals who choose to provide it to NASCO in order to subscribe to the Latest News blog. This information typically includes the user’s email address. NASCO uses the third party service Jetpack to maintain its email subscription service. In addition to collecting email addresses from users who wish to subscribe to NASCO’s Latest News blog, Jetpack’s web servers automatically collect information from users who browse NASCO’s website, such as Internet protocol (IP) addresses, the general location where the user’s computer is accessing the Internet, the average time spent on NASCO’s website, pages viewed, information searched for and other relevant statistics. This information is collected by using tracking technologies, known as “cookies.” “Cookies” are small text files that a website saves on a computer or mobile device when an individual visits a website. Cookies assist NASCO in enhancing a user’s experience when visiting the NASCO website by helping NASCO understand how people use the site so that NASCO can better serve its members and users. You can view Jetpack’s Privacy Policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ and their cookies policy here: https://automattic.com/cookies/.

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Directors

Albert Bryant, M.B.A.

Charities Administrator

Colorado Office of the Secretary of State

Caitlin Calder

Assistant Attorney General

Connecticut Office of the Attorney General

Leslie Friedlander

Senior Assistant Attorney General

Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General

Charities Enforcement Unit

Jonathan C. Green

Division Chief

Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General

Non-Profit Orgs/Public Charities Division

Elizabeth Kim

Senior Assistant Attorney General

California Department of Justice

Office of the Attorney General

Charitable Trusts Section

Kristin Louis

Bureau Chief

Office of the Illinois Attorney General

Charitable Trust Bureau

Hanna Rubin

Director of Registration Section

New York Office of the Attorney General

Charities Bureau

Cara Spencer

Assistant Attorney General

Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia

Antitrust and Nonprofit Enforcement Section, Public Advocacy Division

Carol Washington

Assistant Attorney General, Manager

Minnesota Office of the Attorney General

Charities Division

Heather L. Weigler

Senior Assistant Attorney General

Oregon Department of Justice

Noula Zaharis

Director

Georgia Office of the Secretary of State

Securities & Charities Division

NAAG Liaison

Director-NAGTRI Center for Consumer Protection

National Association of Attorneys General

2030 M St NW, 8th Floor

Washington, DC 20036

(202) 320.2902